Incy wincy spider

May 18, 2007 - 8:01 AM by

Found a huge spider in the garden yesterday. People always say they’ve seen enormous spiders, but this one was big. With it’s legs and body, it was almost the size of my fist.
It had made its web in amongst my rose geranium bush, and sat there in the middle looking dangerous. It had a sleek yellow body with black stripes running across it, and stripy brown and black legs. I’d never anything like that in Israel before.
There was something about the way it sat there that worried me. So still and confident. So poised. So… deadly. And it was just outside the window of the children’s bedroom.

My son’s metapelit came out into the garden.
“Ooh,” she said, peering at it from a safe distance. “You’ve got to get rid of that. That’s poisonous. That’s definitely not a good spider.”

She came to me a little bit later in the day.
“I went to kill that spider,” she said. “But when I got there I saw how beautifully he’d made his web and I just couldn’t do it. It was such a lovely web.”

When my husband came home I told him about the spider. “He’s huge,” I said.
He eyed me dubiously.
We went out to the garden, and since it was late and dark I took a torch and shone it at the web.
“Yoh!” said my husband, taking a step back. “He is big.”
He went to the shed to look for tools and came out brandishing anti-cockroach spray.
“That’s not going to kill him, he’ll just mutate into something worse,” I said.
“I haven’t finished yet,” he answered and went to the house for a lighter.
“There!” said my husband as he aimed the spray at the spider and lit the lighter. A huge plume of flame hit the web and the spider disappeared.
“He’s gone,” he said with satisfaction. “I saw that in a movie.”

This morning I went back to check if I could find the spider’s body. As I rounded the corner I saw it. Right back in the centre of it’s ruined web. Horribly alive. And it looks angry.
Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

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Comments

3 Comments on Incy wincy spider

  1. Anneline on Fri, May 18th 2007 8:12 PM

    2. Not without a photo ! Could you possibly provide one ?

  2. inusid on Fri, May 18th 2007 10:08 PM

    3. hmmmmmmmm sounds scary. i havent got a clue about what kind of spider it is. but if it has strong colors it means it IS dangerous. i wouldnt be able to kill it. i guess if you let her be, she will just clean your garden and eat all those bugs that eat your plants. if you dont bother them, they dont bother you.
    normally they dont walk far from their webs. they just wait there, and eat there, and have babies there, uh oh! babies. that could be a problem! :-)
    cant you take a picture of it? it would help to recognize it.

  3. *Micol* on Mon, May 21st 2007 4:09 PM

    4. Usually spiders are good housepets. They’ll get rid of mosquitoes for you and they won’t leave their web area. You could put some spider repellant between where you live and where the spider lives, to make sure it never gets close (how big is it? I want a picture :) ) or call a professional to get rid of it.

    Or get a cat. Unless the spider’s bigger then the cat, the cat will joyously pounce on the eight legged creature (If Garfield comics have taught me anything ;) )

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