Rock-a-bye babies!... An Argiopes egg casing!

Urgh I see that and just think OH NO MORE SPIDERS lol...
good pic Lori :o)

believe me, Pip c... I usually do not wax friendly with spiders either...but this particular spider is a gardener's friend. it's the black hairy dock spiders that really give me the heebie-jeebies. shudder!

Any spider is my natural enemy I'm afraid, even if they are good for the garen!

LOl... I was out watering in the very early morning and I found a web with a male Argiopes in it.... I've seen two females, an egg casing and now a male...They seem to like this very hot dry weather...sad that their lives are so short.

Oh Pip c...you live in the land of the brown whatsit or is that the redback?...I kinda understand now!

I live in the land of the black widow, the redback, the funnelweb, and the huntsman.... all fearsome creatures! I've never been the same since I found a huntsman in the letterbox at age 5...

OMG! 'nuf said. I promise I'l hold off posting any more spider pics...
Lucky that you saw it before it got you, but 5 years is a tender age for such experiences as spider venom can be fatal to young children and older folk.

Indeed. Hunstmen are not overly poisonous, their bite is described as like a bee sting. It's the redbacks and funnelwebs you have to watch out for. Redbacks fool you by curling up their legs and making themselves look smaller, then unfolding and having a go at you!!! The funnnelwebs are the worst, or so I believe! The females are the huge black hairy specimens, but the males are 'small' and are 12 times more venomous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
White-tips are also highly lethal ones... they live in cramped conditions in our shed, it must be like a high rise unit block for them with all those dusty tools!!! {I never go in}

Argh!!!! I wouldn't either....who is the brave soul endowed with that responsibility?
I've never seen an agressive spider...lucky me. I took out an argiopes web with my face just today! found another just above and to the right of the front door...near the light...she's crafty...must have a thing for moths...lol.

Mum usually tackles it... she's not scared of spiders like I am !!
Don't you hate it when you get a spiderweb in the face and you get the feeling that they're crawlnig all over you? That's a disadvantage of beauiful summer's evening walks around our neighbourhood - the orb spiders like to position their webs in between the front gardens and the trees on the nature strip, which is exactly where you walk of course!

Agreed...it's a sensation...or visceral reaction, not unlike the effect of the sound of fingernails on a blackboard. Zzzzzhhhhhh!
Bless all Mom's. Maybe you could revive the old custom of taking a sun shade on your walks... (moonshade?) anyway, the webs need never touch you!

;o))))))