please identify this spider

[Ronr]

I'm not impressed if it doesn't have lasers

[TresGatos]

The first one looks bad ass!  Has survived a leg-loosing
fight or two

[Ronr]

The first one looks bad ass!  Has survived a leg-loosing
fight or two

How can you loose with a jet cowl on a side car?

lol, two in a row... lose, not loose 

[svoloch]

I am shooting for an infestation of these

[muskrat]

I likes.  we had shit tons of Alfa Romeos in Venezuela.  lets hope this car comes over at a reasonable price......yeah right.

[calscrazy]

we keep hoping for them to get one more in their dax count!

[TresGatos]

lol, two in a row... lose, not loose 

Ha. My bad or the iPhone?  I depend on Words
With Friends app

[caffeinejunkee]

Saw this one at a gas station in Comanche on the way back from the HC:

[Cyclone]

Saw this one at a gas station in Comanche on the way back from the HC:

That's a pitifully skinny banded garden spider - used to see a lot of fat ones at our old farm in E Tx.

[DucVixenReturns]

These two showed up on our back porch. They are working together. Any guesses? The first photo is one spider, the next 2 are the second spider taken from 2 different angles.

They appear to be a variety of Orbweaver

[dallas2r]

Saw this one at a gas station in Comanche on the way back from the HC:

That's a pitifully skinny banded garden spider - used to see a lot of fat ones at our old farm in E Tx.

Also known as a Zipper Spider for the zipper pattern it weaves in it's web. No one knows for sure why they do it as it catches fewer bugs, but the theory is that it makes the web more visible so birds don't fly into it. A buddy of mine at work had one camped out in the bed of his truck and I took a ton of shots of him when I first got my macro lens. Here's a link to the photos and theres also a couple of videos on the last page. The first video is from when we introduced another spider into the web and the second shows him prepping his gecko meal. Excuse the poor videographer skills. It was my first attempt using my SLR to shoot video. FYI, on the first video you can see the wrapped gecko hanging from the web.

http://pixl8.smugmug.com/Nature/Marks-traveling-spider-show/13581757_6ZWwJ#990454510_J7TxJ

[♣ McKraut ♣]

i met this guy in hill country:

[Cher]

Ummm, yeah.  Thanks for that 

[ducatiz]

Wolf

The bricks are 4" tall.  His body was about as thick as my pinky finger.  I love these guys, but they scare the SHIT out of my wife.  Look nasty, but very benign.  THey don't make a web, they burrow and eat tons of bugs.