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Your description helped me realize these are the spiders I was constantly dodging on trails outside of Puerto Vallarta last year! The webs were usually over my
by standardUser 5y ago
Your description helped me realize these are the spiders I was constantly dodging on trails outside of Puerto Vallarta last year! The webs were usually over my head on the trails, but I imagine that's only because of trail usage.
- jdmichal 5y agoThose might have been banana spiders / golden orb weavers, which are native to the southeast US down to northern South America. They have the same web-building habit as described. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichonephila_clavipes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichonephila_clavipes https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/in467 https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/in467
- edgyquant 5y agoAs someone from near Kentucky, I hate Banana spiders. They aren’t mean, but they are terrifying if you’re scared of spiders and unlike the spiders in the OP they will bite.
- throwanem 5y agoProbably - I've seen an orb weaver learn to spin her web out of the way of humans, lest we disarrange her careful work.
- edgyquant 5y agoFwiw orb weaver is a family of spiders including Joro, Banana spiders, etc.