What kind of spider is this?

[PSD Ryan]

Aside from dead (non chlorinated brake cleaner and a lighter) what is it? It was pretty big. Found it in the back yard.

[PondPopper]

Banana. What I call them.

[Buckshot-73]

It was a good one...

[poisonedbrew]

shoulda gave it one more year.

[AgBass01]

Banana spider

[bwssr]

Golden Orb

[BradBryant1000]

I always called them garden spiders.

[Jaybo31]

thats a sticktoyourfaceinthedarkmakeyouaninja spider.

Fun to feed though. The kids get a kick out of it.

[Man]

We always called them Banana spiders. Used to light blackcats and toss in web. They run to it to start wrapping it and kaboom....green slime everywhere.

[Mike Javi Cooper]

A bug eating machine..

[barnett77859]

we call them garden spiders like to watch them catch a grasshopper in there web.

[MTNshape]

The kind that makes you scream like a little girl when you run into them while walking through the brush in the dark

[wassaw]

a good place to get horse flies and deer flies off your arse or your buddy behind you.

[muzzlebrake]

Man's best friend spider.

[J-Bob]

thats a sticktoyourfaceinthedarkmakeyouaninja spider.

Fun to feed though. The kids get a kick out of it.

Yeah, my boys love catching crickets and tossing them up into the web. Pretty cool to watch the spider work. They are fast.