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Written by Jim on June 17th, 2007 with
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i have a spider bite on my back that looks like a target. what kind of spider is it? how will it effect me?
I have come across the Wandering Spider myself, having lived many years in South America. From my own personal experience, I will tell you a couple things that make this spider stand out in my experience:
a) When scared, the spider will rear up on its hind legs and warn you. It is not aggressive, but may attack you if threatened.
b) The spider can jump quite a distance. I personally saw one jump around 8 feet.
The first time you see this spider you will think it’s a tarantula. But remember what I said about it rearing up on it’s hind legs-that’s it’s trademark warning sign.
Just had a a co worker at the grocery store here in California have one of these nasty “size of a rat” spiders crawl out of a banana box and onto them. Another co worker caught the bugger and after taking the species to a specialist it turns out that this spider is very deadly…glad the guy that opened the box is still okay.. get medical attention any spider in a banana box bites you!!!!
—-To Vickie and George—-
Those are just common garden spiders. i used to go out and catch those in Georgia all the time. their bite feels somewhat like a bee sting and isn’t at all harmful. i wouldn’t suggest holding one though.
hope this helped!
I really don’t care if they are poisonous or not they are really scary looking and i would have a heart attack if one ever got on me they are all over my yard and are very common here in Texas they are everywhere here.
Madison that spider is extremely dangerous, spray yellow jacket poison on it and eggs 4 three min. be at least 1 foot away.
If you live in the central Fl are near the east coast and want to see what this spider know as the banana spider or brazilian wondering spider if you go to the Merritt Island wildlife refuge and drive the trials their or wank into any of our many orange groves you will come across them the average size is round 6in but i have seen them as big as a football but they are know to be 3 ft and i have never seen that but i would not doubt them i kill them all the time in my back yard and i have had them on me while riding my four wheeler in the woods it is scary when you see that thing on you no matter how tough you are it will freak you out so they are real and they are very common to see in FL for sure.
Last year I was bitten on my calf of my right leg. I live in Tennessee. started itching and turning red one morning when I got up. the very next day a cousin of my husband started putting a potato on the bite. After a few hours the spot where he put the potato started forming a hard, red, itchy area where the potato was. the potato was starting to turn a faded looking color and dry. After a few days it went away, but today leaves a scar the size of a quarter. Would anyone happen to know what bit me?
I live in Jacksonville, Florida, and suddenly about a week ago, a spider with a huge web reaching from about halfway up a tree trunk on one side, and anchored into some ferns on the other side appeared. Directly in the middle of the web is a kind of curly-cue design like an old telephone cord. The spider itself it kind of beige with darker stripes on it’s leg and body. It appears to be aggressive as it kind of follows you with it’s eyes if you walk near it. One of our landscapers held a stick near the web, and the spider got on it’s hind legs and attacked it with it’s front legs and mouth, and then jumped off the web toward the guy. He said it was a “banana spider”, and wouldn’t get rid of it for me.
I really need to know what this is because it’s near our back porch door, and my elderly mother uses that door as an entrance. She doesn’t see or walk well, so I don’t want something chasing her. Also, I suffer from MS and diabetes, and am afraid if it were to bite me, the bite would not heal and possibly cause an amputation. It also swings it’s web at you when you walk by which is creepy. Any help I can get to determine what it is would be greatly appreciated. It has doubled it’s size in one week. If it is venomous, it’s gonna have to go elsewhere, if not, it can stay and eat all the other gross bugs Florida has to offer.
Thanks so much for your help.
i have 7 known ”writing spiders” or garden spiders..and 1 very large spider which i now think is the ”banana spider” i live on the coast in NC..lived in the country my whole life..seen garden spiders and always leave them be because of the huge amounts of flys they catch around the horse stable,which is a blessing..but that other spider who has dominated the space and actually quite larger then the large garden spiders really flipped me out..any time i bumped his web he came charging me…i was showing my wife and flicked a cig butt in his web, he was 2ft away but came fast as a bullet and grabbed the cig butt like it was food and turned it over and over before dropping it out his web..i will let him stay but i am still on the fence about the mixed info on their bites…he is aggressive………any educated info is welcomed to be sent to this e-mail> mojomonkeymaster [at] gmail.com
I thought it might be of interest to people reading this to see where the Brazilian Wandering Spider/South American Banana Spider lives.
There are eight different species of the Brazilian Wandering Spider, found from Costa Rica to Northern Argentina. They have also been introduced to Uruguay.
should i be worried because im a extremely scared by spiders. and my family is in love with banana’s and im afraid they might be bitten so how could we prevent this? and how many people have been seriously effected by this (what i think is creepy and/or gross) spider??
Everyone on this site that lives in the US needs to take a chill pill. Their are only 2 real poisonous spiders in the US the Black Widow and the Brown Recluse. What everyone is calling a Banana Spider is really a Garden Spider and a Golden Orb spider. These spiders build very large webs to catch insect. They are beautiful and they are a great help in killing insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, grasshoppers, crickets, termites, etc. The real banana spider is called the Brazian Wandering Spider and they live in South America. If you work in the produce business, then I would be careful around bananas that come from South America, otherwise spiders perform a great service by reducing all of the insects, so admire them, if need be from a distance.
I just got off work and I was uncapping banana’s from Chiquita company and I go to lift the box and there I see a long legged spider inside the box. We stepped on the box it ran under and thought it had died, then we go to bail the box and there was no body of it on it. What’s the best way to uncap bananas without having to worry about it?
The black and yellow spiders that are in the large webs are orb spiders and are harmless its cracks me up with all the scare if you don’t know about a spider look it up the world is full of information about them don’t just go killing it they benefit us in killing other insects that are more harmful and those of you that have a bite go to the doctor and have them look at it