Two spiders with their web stretched completely across a woods path.
![[Two spiders]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-19--spiderwebs/20250719_083312.jpg)
The second web is harder to see, but it goes from ground level up about 20 feet and equally wide. It has about half a dozen spiders in it. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Banana Spider
Banana spider 2022-11-01
They’re everywhere in the woods in the fall.
![[About head height, of course]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-11-01--bananas-middle-swamp-spider-bonfire-dogs/20211101_125533.jpg)
Also called golden orb spiders, Trichonephila clavipes.
Their venom is poisonous, but it doesn’t have much effect on humans, and I’ve never had one bite me despite frequently having them walk all over me when I’m in the woods on the tractor.
-jsq
Spider hat, garden vegetables 2021-06-28
A common occurrence in the woods: a banana spider on my hat.
![[Orb weaver spider on hat]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-06-28--spider-hat-garden-vegetables/20210628_160411.jpg)
These golden orb-weavers, genus Nephila, weave webs many feet across between trees, often at human eye height.
I left this one on a nearby bush.
Here are a few vegetables from the garden that day. Continue reading
Spiderweb in the morning
Morning spiderweb:
The spider, a Golden Silk Orbweaver, Golden Silk Spider, Banana Spider, Nephila clavipes:
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