Call me Miss Muffett

[charliesmum]

So there's this really weird looking green spider that keeps trying to build its web right across my front door.

It's a very ambitious spider.

I've never seen a spider like this one. It's like Disco Spider - it's a lime green with a red stripe on it's torso and, I think, one on each side. My curiousity about the spider was tempered with my extreme fear of them. After all, just because it looked like a spider going to a fancy dress party didn't make it any less of a spider.

I tried looking up the spider on line, but the draw back to looking up spiders is having to look at spiders and...again...icky. The only green and red spider I could find was a jumping spider, and mine didn't look quite like that.

If anyone on my flist knows about spiders, or isn't wigged out by looking at them for any length of time, and wants to try to find out what kind of spider it was, I'd be interested. Want to make sure it isn't going to breed rapidly and take over my house and then the world.

Comments

[camwyn]

Feh. You can find listings and pictures of species of dragonflies in NJ on the web, but apparently, not spiders. Not unless they're in late Cretaceous amber.

Laaaame.

I'll see what I can find. Although you might want to email a professor of entomology at Rutgers- sometimes they can work from a description.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I kept getting pages about the Fiat Spider, which isn't quite the same thing.

[deviantauthor.livejournal.com]

I can point you in the direction of a lovely blog where you can leave a comment and ask. Maybe Swampy can tell you. She's fabulously brilliant!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

okay!

[deviantauthor.livejournal.com]

http://swampthings.blogspot.com/

There you go. Maybe she can tell you from the description--I don't know. All I can tell you is that she's fabulous when it comes to her descriptives and photos of the critters of nature. *g*

[zakkati.livejournal.com]

Ooh! You broke my dream. There was a huge, black spider in it and it jumped bloody high too. I had to brace my back against the wall, and put my feet high up on the opposite wall to escape from it!


*shudders*

want to make sure it isn't going to breed rapidly and take over my house and then the world.

That would be the Baby-Bush spider, hon. It's easy to differentiate it from other spiders by flicking a little Holy water at it. If it catches fire and burns, then it's a Bush! And if you dare, you can peek under it's belly for numbers. The combination of three sixes is very popular!

*snerk*

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

"Disco spider"...

You have no idea of the mental head video I have now.

Or possibly you do. It's a gaily coloured cartoony spider, dancing to K C and the Sunshine Band, "Get Down Tonight."

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

What, they are building their webs out of feathers instead of silk now? :)

I guess that would be good camouflage for the dreaded "chicken-spider," scourge of the henhouse. :)

[finmagik.livejournal.com]

I like spiders, it sounds cool. I also like people reading my ficlets, which no one did yesterday.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! I'll go read it now!

While completely OT...

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

*peers at icon* That's Neil isn't?

At any rate, I seriously fangirl your icon...

Re: While completely OT...

[finmagik.livejournal.com]

Thanks I got from Forrester Studios on Jounralfen. It sprange from a Fandom_wank thingy.

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

Looking around, I think it may be a crab spider.

They seem to be fairly common and are also called "Flower Spiders." They also seem to come in multiple shapes and sizes.

Do a google search fro "crab spider" and see if anything looks like what you've got.

Dude... you aint even kidding...

[erynnef.livejournal.com]

My dad had this wickedly huge spider on his porch.


It had orange and black striped legs, and an orange body, with this black EYE symbol on the back end of it, with white in the center. Me, being the arachnaphobe in the family, freaked the hell out, and ran screaming into the house. My dad thought it was the smaller one he has just taken care of the previous week. He came out, looked at it and was like, "Whoa, he's huge." Took some wasp spray to it. I mean, it was at least bigger than a 50 cent piece, and that was with his legs curled in the web. If Pops goes and gets the spray, you know it's big.

I've been looking for that one too, and I cant find it. These new mutants arent checking in before they move in. The bastards.

One more thing..

[erynnef.livejournal.com]

http://www.spiderzrule.com/commonspidersusa.htm


try this site.. they have a few green ones in the USA section. They've helped me out before!