This was in the middle of the street. The web went from one side of the street all the way to the other.

The body was about 1 inch big, with the legs it's about 2 inches. This thing was huge!

Any spider experts out there. Im curious what kind of spider this is.

 

i had one that big on the inside of my front door one morning about a week ago, different kind of spider tho...

 

dayum so fat

 

That's not a brown recluse is it? if so, i'd isht myself.

 

i like to feed the black widows in front of my house! lol, catch some crickets then throw it on the web

 

When I had my finacee smash it with a rock, it looked like a big *** ***-shot! White thick fluid came shooting out of it much like a "CS"... lol...

 

thats ok for the city i guess its big. mtn spiders are way scarier tho. Wood spiders have legs that make them 4" diameter total, then there are brown recluses and sometimes black widows and tarantualas that are black and hairy. Tons of scorpions too.

 

mm, reminds me of a few months ago at my friends moms place in paso robles, there was a huge tarantula crawling on the house a few feet away from us.

 

those spiders are small.

 

My 6 year old daughter peeked over my shoulder while I was reading this thread and she saw the picture of the spider...and now she won't sleep in her room

 

i wont sleep in my room! haha i pull my bed away from the walls. doesnt help they are stained wooden walls knot holes that camouflages anything on them.

ive smashed a few big wood spiders putting shoes on, creeps me out

 

haha, and to think that I used to play with them growing up. We'd have spider fights on wooden sticks back in the Philippines...Nothing bigger than an inch though...I've been bit once too while I held it and even when I was trying to shake it off, the F'er was still latched to my palm and wouldn't come off. After a couple of minutes, I had this nasty bump on my hand kinda like a bee sting...Ouch.

And No, I didn't get any special powers like webs shooting off my wrist

 

it didn't do anything to you

 

Yeah, but his cousin did, and I almost lost my leg from it... so spiders can can go SUCK AN ***!!!

 

maybe its a European Garden Spider?