My garden pest control.

[FITBMX]

I have about a dozen of these in the high tunnel/greenhouse, they are eating whatever they get a hold of.

 

[tirediron]

How big are they?

 

[FITBMX]

How big are they?

I will take another photo with a ruler next to it tomorrow. They are big.

 

[tirediron]

I got that impression!

 

[jcdeboever]

Probably the size of a half dollar, they bite humans too so be careful.

 

[FITBMX]

Here is some sizing for you, looks like about 3" in length.

 

[tirediron]

That's big enough to make give him the right-of-way!

 

[FITBMX]

Probably the size of a half dollar, they bite humans too so be careful.

I haven't been bit by one, but i have seen them wrapping up 1.5" grasshoppers. I think they will kill anything they can get a hold of, and that may include humans!

That's big enough to make give him the right-of-way!

 

[jcdeboever]

Do even need a macro lens for that one... nice

 

[FITBMX]

Do even need a macro lens for that one... nice

I need to get some extension tubes. I just have my kit lens, which ins't a great macro lens. But I don't shoot enough macro to warrant buying a lens just for it.

 

[Mikeyb90]

I love these! Garden spiders as we called them growing up. Fitting as they were always in the garden lol. We used to throw big grasshoppers into there webs and watch them wrap em up like it was nothing. My step dad had an odd looking Sony digital camera with a macro on it which is ironically what got me into photography


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[FITBMX]

I love these! Garden spiders as we called them growing up. Fitting as they were always in the garden lol. We used to throw big grasshoppers into there webs and watch them wrap em up like it was nothing. My step dad had an odd looking Sony digital camera with a macro on it which is ironically what got me into photography


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The size of some of the bugs they catch is amazing to me. They eat a lot too.
Do you shoot macro?

 

[Streets]

Not a poisonous species. Never heard of one biting a human either.

 

[jcdeboever]

Not a poisonous species. Never heard of one biting a human either.

I got bit more than once by them in my grandparents green house / farm. Not poisonous, true. However, the bite always burned and left a hard itchy lump in the bite area which inevitably would get infected because kids are not the cleanest. You get bit by them when you walk through there nest and not realizing they are hitching a ride on you. Grandma said they were her soldiers.

 

[Streets]

NOW I've heard of someone being bitten by a garden spider. Never too old to learn something new. Thanks.