I love orb weavers! Such amazing spiders! I have been meaning to cover them. Thank you for giving them some love and sharing all of this awesome information! I learned a lot!

I own a pretty big snake and people are always surprised when I mention my fear of spiders it's a leg thing, the more legs the scarier. Snakes are legless!

When I was an archaeologist, fall field surveys would sometime take us through southern Minnesota crp grasslands loaded with yellow garden spiders. Like easily a dozen in a hundred yard transect. We had to wade through the shin or knee high grass, and if you didn't dodge the webs you'd often end up with a very big, very confused spider coming along for a ride.

When I was little, my family had a playset in our backyard and there was a garden spider that made a web on part of it, I remember I named her Charlotte like from Charlotte's Web and god, I loved looking at that spider every time we got to go outside and play- It now makes me really nostalgic whenever I see any kind of orb weaver, and they're probably some of my favorite spider species to be discovered, not only are they pretty, but they're friendly, and they make huge webs that are like artwork in a museum

I love spiny-backed orbweavers. They come in lots of different color combinations of white, red, black, yellow, orange, and green. The bushes in front of my front windows used to have several spiny-backed orbweavers in them, but the big Texas freeze last February killed the bushes. Honestly, since the freeze I haven’t seen nearly as many orbweavers (we have garden spiders and banana spiders in this area as well) as usual. Hopefully they come back in the coming years.

We found a garden orb weaver in our backyard once and my stepdad started treating it like a pet. He would catch grasshoppers and other insects and plant them in her web for her. She was very calm and seemed appreciative. As someone who grew up with really severe arachnophobia, she helped to lessen my fears. To this day, orb weavers are still my favorite type of spiders.

I love this channel because literally every type of person can learn from Emily…. Obviously she’s great at educating kids… but I have a degree in evolutionary biology and work as a science writer, and I genuinely learned several things I’d never heard of before in this video!

Garden orb weaver are possibly my fave spider ever, even above jumping spiders. They're just stunning and their web is so unique and beautiful!

I used to be terrified of them- to the point I tried to stab a wolf spider with a chef's knife. (I missed and the spider survived.) Then my parents decided to rent out a house in Cape Cod for vacation one year and the place was infested with them. When they wouldn't let me sleep in the car, I decided to stay up for the whole week long trip. I made it to about 4AM the first night before passing out. I feel asleep the rest of the night more or less on time, but never really felt safe doing so. (I had a flashlight and a pocket knife on the nightstand next to me- I didn't think a shoe would work on them they were so large.) The last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and it was dead silent save for a very slight tapping noise. I looked in the direction it was coming from and saw a massive wolf spider running around next to a nightlight- from the other side of the room. It eventually ran back into the darkness and disappeared. Noticeably shaken, I pulled the blanket up over my head, tucked the edges up so that they were not on the floor (to stop it from climbing into my bed) and tried to go back to sleep. I'd been in that house five days and had yet to be bitten. Fast forward two weeks and I'm playing unofficial IT guy at my mother's school. (Since the school's actual IT guy thought it'd be a good idea to wait until the first day of school to set up everyone's computers.) As I was untangling the snake's nest of cabling that had haphazardly been shoved into a computer cart the previous June, I notice something crawling around. It was just a small cellar spider, and, while it might have normally sent me running out the door screaming, this time, probably resulting from the uncomfortable, but necessary, interactions with wolf spiders, I didn't. I figured I could actually put an end to my arachnophobia and actually picked it up. The strange thing is, I went from absolutely terrified of them to incredibly fascinated. And while I've had yet to pick up a tarantula (they are not exactly native to Maryland,) I've handled VERY large wolf spiders. Its now at the point where I actually want to find them in my basement, were as before I'd be going for a shoe, knife, or rifle.

I usually am not a fan of spiders, but that, is just AMAZING! 💛💛💛

I love spiders in general. My garden is full of them because I had two golden silk roaming out there and each one had babies not long ago, they do a wonderful pest control and their webs looks amazing when the sun shines. Also, yesterday I discovered two Aphonopelma seemanni in the backyard and immediately fell in love (just Costa Rica things right here 🤣).

I really REALLY appreciate how you shot and edited this video! It's a little bit of a silly thing, but I have a built-in mild arachnophobia. Like looking at them for too long or too close makes me anxious. But I really like learning about spiders because they're amazing. What I really like is that you show them in a lot of angles, with shots back to Emily. Which makes it a lot easier for me to learn about the orb weavers without making my silly brain go "AAAAAAAAAA SPIDER DANGER". Hearing about them is really great too because if I encounter one outside now I probably won't be startled because I know about them now.

As someone who spent almost a decade in the southeastern United States, I can pretty confidently say that your 3" diagonal leg span for the Golden Orb Weaver, might be a bit conservative. I never stopped to pose one on a ruler, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them were over 5 inches.

orb weavers are so beautiful. As a kid my brothers and I saw a spiny orb weaver in Florida on vacation, it was red with black or black with red markings and we were like "woah it's a Darth Maul spider!" we'd never seen a spider with spikes before lol This summer we had a huge yellow garden orb weaver in my yard (in Arizona) for a while before she left, mostly black and yellow with some red near her body, so pretty.

The Golden orb weavers in South Africa are also huge, but what I love most is that only some of the threads is made of the golden silk, and you can pluck it like a guitar string. It's so cool.

I have these spiders hanging around my house all the time. In fact, there is one living by my sliding glass door. It's been amazing to see it grow from a tiny little baby to the size of a silver dollar!

Neat little fact: I believe the spiny-back orb weavers may have been inspirstion for the Gold Skulltulas in Ocarina of Time since they have spikes/spines on them too. (Edit: updated to the Gold Skulltulas, double checked that)

These are my favorite spiders besides jumpers!🖤

My family always called the spiny orb weavers armored spiders glad I know more about them !

I love orb weavers!!! I got to have one as a friend when I went to Texas for a couple months last year. I'd go out on the porch and have coffee while watching her hang out, sometimes talk to her. I named her Lady Grey, and she was there for about 3 weeks before a storm washed her out.

The outtakes caught the Spinyback making their web tuft! They put them on their web similar to how the Garden does the zipper pattern. Definitely helps to not run into them. When I lived in SC, the Spinyback webs were actually really big, and the anchor silk would even go from the ground to low tree branches. Pretty crazy.

The spiny back spiders are everywhere in my yard in Florida! They're really cool, they honestly remind me of crabs lol. I love their pointy fancy hats!

Argiope aurantia is my favorite spider because my favorite colors are black and yellow. One summer, I actually refused to mow or weedwack a corner of our yard because one of these ladies built her web there. I'm so happy you included them!

This is what Emily can acomplish when she edits instead of going on the stream to watch rex XD

WOW! I have never EVER heard of the spiny backed orb weavers before! I'm googling them right now totally at awe of their different looks! :D Thanks for teaching me something new as always!

This is literally my favorite spider! The spiny backed orb weaver specifically! Gasteracantha canciformis is local to me and I've always loved them and their amazing webs. I'm at work so k haven't watched the video yet but I'd love to see these guys available as pets at one point in the future. Not much is known about their care, I'm trying to work on that.

A+ Good rhythm, just the perfect amount of information delivered at the perfect pace with no annoying extraneous words or empty pauses. Well done.

within a minute and 15 seconds I learned more about spiders than I ever thought possible. 1) Never knew spiders could make both sticky AND non-sticky webs! 2) NEVER KNEW THEY HAVE TOES!!! This is why I follow you guys! Thanks so much for your work, commitment, and love to creatures of all sorts!

Those are one of my favorite spiders, thank you!

Orb weavers helped me overcome my fear of spiders! They usually stay in one place, are amazing to observe and are beautiful! ps - love the bloopers!

Orb weavers are awesome! One of my favorites is the orchard orb weaver (genus Leucauge). They have shiny silver and gold markings, making them look like dazzling little jewels sitting in their webs. The first time I saw one I almost couldn't believe it was real, because of how pretty it was.

I love these spiders! They're so cute

So we had one of these on our porch when I was growing up. My parents called it a banana spider (this was in Tampa, Florida near a creek if anyone wants to figure out what it was - and I swear it was like 3-4 inches wide, maybe bigger is if the legs were flattened). Idk which it was, but I am pretty scared of (read as: terrified) spiders and my dad paid me a nickel every time I closer to this GIANT YELLOW SPIDER. If anyone is wondering how that went, I am still scared of spiders and make my husband some take care of most bugs and spiders. But I try to not kill ones that don't seem poisonous, however we live in brown recluse (how do you spell that??) territory.

Yay! Love that these amazing cuties are getting some attention! I actually own a yellow garden spider named Banana. Watching her grow bigger every molt and feeding her grasshoppers, moths, and the occasional cricket has been a blast! I also love seeing how her web changes everytime she decideds its time for a fresh web. ^-^

Ok so, I've always had a fear of spiders, especially the weird shaped ones, but TBH this video kinda helped me with that, especially with the bloopers and the little spiny back one stopped to repair the web it was kinda cute, and like, my anxiety kinda dissipated. Thanks for being so cool and educating about things!

floridian here- we have sooo many spiny orb weavers in our lanai lol. we have no idea what they even eat, since it's screened in, but they're thriving!

My Nana's house would get absolutely infested with the yellow garden spiders like they're at least be 10 all around her house sure they're completely harmless but having about 10 spiders watching you while you're outside walking around isn't exactly comfortable

I love when my neighbors call me to come get spiders! We get tons of spiny-backs and wolf spiders, but it's a real treat when they call me for bananas! There are some woods nearby our neighborhood that surely must be growing a crazy population of relocated arachnids. 😬😅

I love the golden silk orb weaver . They are so cool !! Their web is really strong and they eat it afterwards to reuse it .

I am coming to the snake discovery zoo for my 14th birthday you are my FAV KZfaqr, keep doing what you do!

I remember when I was young, I watched a wild Kratts episode on orb-weavers and it blew my 6-year-old mind lol.

My favorite spiders! That's soo cool i learned something new about their webs. Thank you God for such unique and interesting creatures. 💗

I love jumping spiders. Still can’t get myself to love orb weavers, but I can appreciate them from far far away.

I love your out-takes - I always wait for them!

Neat! There was a big spider on the outside of my work building earlier this year. It looked cool, but sadly I had to remove him due to the fact that he was right next to a high traffic area and my female coworkers were terrified, lol. I wonder if he was a type of orb spider?

great video! just watched the dark den's video about a orb weaver spider:)

So happy for another amazing video!

Spiders are so cool and fascinating! I'm glad you did this video and got the footage. They're very beautiful and unique. The footage at the end with the Spiny Backed Orb Weaver is so cool to see it making it's web n stuff!

How was Emily able to do this video without holding a reptile? She must have been itching for a snek.

Sorry em.. i wanna support you by watching this but my arachnophobia perked up at the sight of it so I'm sorry!!! 😭😭😭😭 Ill just listen to it for this video 😢

4:22 That necklace is so pretty!!

I'm trying to get over my fear of spiders but at the moment the only spider I would willingly hold is a jumping spider because of how adorable they are. Thank you for introducing me to them!

I kinda was interested but kinda not due to my arachnophobia but these are good videos so I don't mind watching them

Loved this! There used to be a couple gorgeous black and yellow orb weavers with webs spread out along the bushes by our old house, they were fascinating to watch and super calm and chill spiders.

Orb weavers are my favorite, so thank you for making this video!!!

the way i literally squealed w delight at the spiny backed orb weaver. what a unique color pattern and shape!

Garden orb weavers are the spiders that always gave me the heebie geebies as a child playing outside😂

they're all so pretty! all the outtakes really show how hard it is to film outside LOL the wind, the bugs, the distracting leaves...

Orb weavers are such a cool kind of spider! We have a good chunk of Furrow Orb Weavers that make their webs on the outside our house on our windows, both male and female! It’s so cool observing them; in all honesty, I’m pretty sure orb weaver spiders have become my all-time favorite spiders 🥰

Love your videos!!!

Soooo beautiful! I LOVE orbweavers!

I love orb weavers! They are what got me fascinated with spiders as a kid! I found one in my backyard in Wisconsin one summer. I would feed it grasshoppers and watch it wrapped them up!

I've always been a neurotically tidy gardener until I noticed the small orb weavers love the Hosta & daylilly stems after the flowers fade. I can tolerate a messy look to give the kids their first place to spin & they eat bugs for me. Love the spiders now that I've gotten over a childhood phobia, they're so cool to watch weave.

This was so cool to watch!😀

Love this! I hope you do even more spider info episodes!

It's so cool that this video came up right after Dark Den's video about the first ever orb weaver he got! They are so fascinating.

Orb weavers are my favorite spider! Cross orb weavers are everywhere where I live and I got the opportunity to see yellow garden spiders on a trip to Virginia. They make such beautiful webs and I felt blessed when 6 of them chose my porch as a home this summer💜

Love the educational content! And spiders! And snakes!

Loved the bloopers!! 😂😂

The spiny backed orbweavers are so cute 💜💜💜

I enjoyed watching this thanks for the amazing video

I love your videos, I love reptiles, spiders, bugs, and Amphibians they’re just beautiful creatures and I really support your channel and I even subscribed!😃

Aww, I have spiny backed orb weavers in my backyard! They are so cute and make such beautiful webs. I’m glad to see no mosquitoes or pests near my plants because of them. Thank you orb weaver spiders. ❤

Great info! I'm learning to love spiders. Y'all are hilarious!

I’m in fl. I have at least 2 different species of orb weavers in my yard rn. Now that I know they are harmless and docile unless threatened, they are now my pets.

Love your vids!

Orb weavers are some of the coolest spiders, so many different colors and sizes.

Very informative!

we had a beautiful yellow garden orb weaver living on our front porch a few years back! we called her charlotte, and i still miss her sometimes to be honest. she was a big reason i stopped being afraid of spiders-- she was just so cool, and i saw her every day, it was hard to be creeped out

The spiked one is so neat looking. Great video.

Love the blooper clips!

The spiny backed orb weaver is my favorite spider! I find them in my yard all the time. They remind me of Shadow ships from Babylon 5 :)

Thank you, Emily and Ed for making this video!! I know you have changed so many minds about snakes and I hope this video will change the minds of some people about spiders. 💜🕷🕸🕷💜

I LOVE Orb Weavers!!! I did my Masters degree on Micrathena gracilis and Micrathena mitrata. Micrathena is another genus of orb weaver that has spines.

Ooh this is so nice! I just read a manhwa/webtoon about humans infusing with bugs and wanted to learn more about the orbweaver about it. Thanks a lot Emily n Ed❤️❤️

My kids and I love your educational content.

Yes!!! Love the spider content!!!!

I've been learning more about spiders since moving to PR last summer. I saw a black and white garden spider at the park and just had to stop to admire her! Stunning web and spider!

Awesome 👌🏿 I love learning ❤

awesome content!

i had a black and yellow garden spider crawling across the arms of my lawn chair without me realizing it, scared the living day lights out of me when i saw it and even chucked my smore backwards. its was very funny

So cool! By far, my favorite spider.

I think spiders are neat and I've never had much of a fear of them at all. They are very cool to be able to work and live along side EXPESUALY to get rid of mosquitos.

I live in a part of Georgia that was invaded by masses of Golden Orb Weavers this year! I had six in my backyard! (and in front of my front door but she was relocated to a better spot near a light post on the edge of the property). I loved watching them this year, I'm hoping they stick around for next year.

When I was a kid, there was a garden orb weaver outside in front of the living room window. Me and my little brother named him John Marshall. 😂 We loved that spider, every morning we would run to the window and open the blinds to check on John Marshall. He was there for at least a few months and I have a lot of fond memories from that time.

We always get orb weavers on our pool in the summer, we love watching them

Orb weavers look cool and I love their webs! They're artists without even realising! Plus, they're good little helpers in gardens. Good little leggy bubs.

Hi Emily lots of love from California! If you want to go herping I recommend this place called Tilden park! There are northern pacific rattlesnakes and pacific gopher snakes . As well as lots of turtles and amphibians! I Remember my first species of newt I ever found was poisonous!

My favorite!! I had a little girl living on my porch this year.

I love the garden spider, so beautiful!