Heh they've got leg warmers

They have a habit of making their webs conveniently head level between trees 😂

Something about how they're always resting their bodies on your hand unlike other spiders is cute.

You know? I'm a bit proud of myself from being a former arachnophobe to an arachnid admirer. That has an amazing color scheme to it. 😁

The Golden Orb Weaver was the first spider to fly to space! They are one, if not the top, most accurate hunters in the insect kingdom. It was taken to zero-gravity space to see how, or IF, it could adjust. After a just a bit of being a tad wobbly, it's beautiful web got even more accurate in angles and spacing, to the millimeter. Their strike and kill accuracy also improved beyond what had been documented on Earth. Cool stuff! Gorgeous gorgeous arachnids, hunters and architects. 😍

One of my favorite spiders to see growing up in south FL 🕷️🕸️

The Golden Silk is such a fascinating creature

I love how its using its pedipalps to crawl along your hand 😍

Their fluffy legwarmers make that they are supercute instead of creepy! Gorgeous little beastie 😍

Those spiders are everywhere in Williston,Florida and we did call them Banana spiders.

Wasn’t this the “paralyzing” spider they used in “lost” when the two robbers were skeeming and ended up getting bit and the rest of the island thought they were dead and they got buried alive lol

I like how it looks up at you like "hey dude you're gunna have to stop moving around so i can start my job"

They get big

I like to call those the “nope x3”

Great summary on this spider!

I saw one in the wild as a kid and I was literally paralyzed

it looks like SpongeBob from the top

I was in South Carolina at a friend's family reunion (I'm from Ohio) several years ago. As we were walking back to the car to leave, my attention was temporarily distracted talking to someone behind me and when i turned back around, my face was literally about a foot away from one of these sitting in the middle of a giant perfect spider web spun between two trees maybe 5 or 6 feet off the ground. It looked like something out of a horror movie to me because I thought these things only existed in the tropics. The craziest thing was how big each strand of the spider web was. The spider web looked like a fake movie prop because the strands were so big and they had a golden hue. I was fascinated and I went to research it and yes, I found out it was called a "Golden Orb Weaver". I'm only now finding out that they're not dangerous to humans, but they are definitely the scariest looking spider you will encounter in the US. The spider was bigger than the one in this video BTW. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool looking spider, no doubt.

I remember sharing a class with you at NCSU glad to see youve gone far

Get near their eggs...you will experience fear

I've always heard of them as orb weavers

Those are the biggest spider where I live next to wolf spiders and you got some balls holding that monstrosity

My gf and friends are spooked out by these as they get pretty big with really long legs and the bright yellow colors they have. I guess its a normal reaction we human have embedded in our DNA over generations of trials and errors of our ancestors. So I understand how they feel cause i sometimes paralyze for a second when i see a snake in the grass or branches & it gives me the heebee-jeebees lol. I leave all spiders alone cause they do us so much good. But eventually I’ll have to clean up the cobwebs that the Silk Spiders make because it’s so huge and there’s so many of them in my back yard 😂 I live in Georgia & us southerners get alot of “wildlife”; insects, arachnids, marsupials (opossums) reptiles, mammals & birds large and small. I have a flowing creek in my backyard with pretty dense woods so I’ve learned to enjoy the circle of life no matter how small it is. There’s a few families of deer that roam around, we hear the owls at night and falcons in the day. I caught a glimpse of a couple blue heron cranes. We’re starting to see more & more wildlife come closer to my home because their habitat is being destroyed and the safest place for them is here. But We’ll get the occasional pack of coyotes too , which is crazy to me because i have never seen or even heard about them around until as of recently. Most likely because all the smaller animals are around now including the deers & I suppose it’s also because more people are moving here and there’s alot of development happening around us & theres nothing anyone can do about it. Its a curse & a blessing. & i don’t live in the country or rural side lol, i live in an underdeveloped suburbs but if you go a couple miles out, its a sprawling city. Thats Georgia for ya lol

Imagine being so cool with just handling these terrifying beasts

I’ve seen these on Jekyll Island, their webs are so pretty

When I was a child, I lived in South Carolina for a while, and I was taking a hike in the woods and ran through one of these webs. The damn thing crawled up my shorts leg, and bit me on the ass cheek it was horrible

Thank you!

The way it walks across your hand with its little pedipalps 😭😭😭

Yeah man I love these spiders! I have an over abundance of egg cases this year so would share with anyone who might want some!

Fun fact this spider is called the electrical spider mostly by kids from philipines. 'Gagambang kuryente' Because their mostly on electrical wires from electric posts

I love them. I've only encountered docile ones and they're actually how i got over my arachnophobia. I ran into a nest on Costa Rica about fifteen years ago and had one the size of a dinner plate on my face. Her legs wrapped around my ears and she didn't seem phased that I'd just ruined her nest in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom. They're really pretty, too.

She's a Female. If you look carefully at the end of the short, you'll see a Female Golden Silk Orb Weaver (large) and a Male one (small).

They are absolutely spectacular!

Cool looking spider!!

i love that it looks like they use their pedipalps to walk too

These little dudes make the coolest webs

I love how she’s constantly using her pedipalps. Whilst she’s walking across your skin. Lovely little lady.

I hate spiders. But they way it walks with it's pedipalps is kinda adorable.

Such a beautiful spider,I love how she uses her pedipalps to help her walk. It’s just cute af.

These make some of the strongest, largest webs I've ever seen. We used to run through them as kids in Florida. I've never been bitten by one, but they're scary enough and heavy enough when they get on you to trigger that freak out mechanism, lol.

Spiders are one of my favorite animals. Ants are my number one.

I literally thought it was a toy spider from the thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣

I live in NC and I gotta say,it’s nice learning more about my state

First time I ever saw one of these was in person was in college. There was a forest next to our school with trails I would often walk down. One day I went for a walk and about ten minutes in a see something several hundred feet ahead, that looks like it's in the trees. I keep walking but it's obviously in the wrong position to be in the trees. I keep walking and whatever it is appears to be hovering in mid air, so I think maybe it's a hummingbird. Finally I get about 20ft from it and see it's a spider the size of my freaking hand that has built a web across the trail, and was just sitting in the middle of it, right at my head height. I didn't go back out there for a couple of weeks.

Horrifying, but harmless. Sounds like your average arachnid. It'd take me a while before I could let that big boi crawl on me.

😊🙏 Thank You for more info like this ... Many learn to live in harmony with these scary looking but non-venomous Golden Orb Weaver spiders in their forest parks! 🌷🌿🌏✌💜🕊

I really enjoy your site.

That spider looks like a little nanobot.

That's a pretty spider.

Spider is thinking "why is this creature talking so much?"

We see a lot of these in the North Florida woods. They string their long webs across forest roads, which really "bugs" us motorcycle riders. Running into a web sucks. 😮

What a beautiful spider!

she is so pretty! Her boyfriend deserves a shout out too, I love how spiders don't discriminate against the short kings

A lot of information in such a short vid well done

I see them often in NC. We leave them alone, they are neat little dudes

Nothing beats nearly having one in your face when you are running through the forest as a kid in Florida.

Ingot bit by a banana spider and my legs swelled up and became bananas. Monkeys were chasing after me for days. Luckily I got bit by a Daddy Long Legs shortly after and my legs turned back to normal, they just grew a little longer.

Wow she is such a beautiful Spider

i love these spiders, as long as they dont spin their webs in my lawn. Their webs are too intimidating for me

Always thought that spider was poisonous.

That is a stunningly gorgeous spider, what is it doing walking with its pedipalps? Its so sweet!

I always see them as a sign of good luck while biking or in the garden

i honestly thought the yellow hue of the web was pollen sticking to it. kinda cool to know they just make it that way. they also apparently dislike other golden silk spiders making a web near them. i have about 5 in my yard right now, they all made webs close to one another and by the end of the week they moved and are now in random places in the yard. im deathly afraid of spiders but these ones are fascinating. The females are also HUGE compared to males. I have 1 male and 4 females in the yard lol.

Thanks 👍

That way she walks with her pedipalps is pretty cute.

I have arachnophobia to the max, but all orbweavers have my respect. They are the artists of the spider kingdom!

I always just called them Garden Spiders tbh

They’re highly dangerous. My mom got bit and was hospitalized for two weeks, she said it was more painful than anything she’s ever gone through and she’s given birth 5 times

I’ve loved em even as a child when I thought they were highly venomous.

This is one of the few spiders that do not trigger my arachnophobia, but for a reason. I used to mow an orange grove in an open cab tractor with a batwing mower... When its that time of year, there will be a haze looking from one end of a grove middle down it, and it is an unknowable number of banana spiders and their webs. Not like i can clear the middles ahead of time... So you just brace for when youre driving through those webs constantly the whole way down... They just cover the tractor and you, crawling all over you. At first it was a night mare, but i quickly realized that they literally just run away at first opportunity. Became just a minor nuisance, the muffler at least cut through and caught most of the webs. Besides jumpin spiders and tarantulas, theyre the only spider i can pick up out of their webs and not be freaked out, though that with it gripped firmly but gently between thumb and fingers upon their abdomen. The biggest ones only though, they dontry to reach around with their fangs, but theyre so big they can't reach! There is a closely related orb weaver that looks similar, main apparent difference being the zigzag pattern of thicker silk that runs up and down the center of their web. These are much quicker (too quick to ever considering picking up on my part, heebie jeebies!), and waaaay more likely to just jump from their webs and run away. Like, throw a leaf in their web and theyre as likely t just jump off as they are to investigate it as potential prey

I call it a golden orb weaver

I have never heard of a wandering spider having a deadly bite. Unless he means just it's prey.

Always loved them. The death-mask carapace is so cool. Worth mentioning that their webs can be huge.

They are so beautiful. I hope to hold one

spider really be like. "u like my banana biznatch"

💖💖💖

I want one, they are so adorable🥰

i only, just recently, took an interest in arachnids, mostly in spiders. From a weird phase of not necessarily being afraid of them, nor being confident with them to being really intrigued and filled with wonder about them. This short had earned a sub and this golden silk is a beautiful little creature.

Their little faces are so cute!!! When they were walking and their pedipalps were walking too it was so good

Golden orb weavers. Everywhere here in Florida, their silk really does look like gold in the morning dew.

Keep on keeping on! Amazing job!.

Not dangerous to humans at all. They won't even bite unless forced to.

Even though I know these spiders are basically harmless, I still could never hold one! They give me the creeps and I’ve held tarantulas several times and even had one crawl on my face before, but you’ll probably never see me touch one of these.

Golden orb weavers are harmless.

That spider chillin

These spiders are beautiful to find on giant webs between two good-size trees or shrubs. Just a little suggestion… before you automatically try to kill a spider, try to identify it. Then learn what it eats. More times than not, you and this spider will have the same insects on your hit list. Only difference, the spider eats them, you pay someone hundreds of dollars to spray dangerous chemicals in your yard or home to get rid of them! Now don’t get me wrong, I can be all calm and zen sitting here typing this, but I will become a full fledged screaming pre-teen girl if I face plant through a spider’s web! But as long as I can see the critter before it’s on me, I’m good. And that’s for damn near any creature. It’s weird how the brain works like that, but I’m not a fan of surprises or shock moments. Especially when it involves physical contact. I actually work for a small hotel in Georgia. I will go out of my way to protect various spiders, their webs, etc because they provide more pest-control service than any pesticide!

They look like a school bus with legs

I love when they make the big white stripe on their web. They are basically saying, "Hey, I live here. Please don't walk face first into my home." Avoids a lot of bad times for both parties.

Spiders have always been portrayed as scary. I just think theyre cool, intelligent and curious creatures. Theyre chilled out 99% of the time unless its guarding a nest or you repeatedly piss it off.

wow this is so cool keep up the good work 😄😄

I learned a reason their webs are so bright is so human eyes can see them easier. They're also a win-win type spider. I'd not object to having one around my doors and windows.

I used to see these a lot in central Florida. And the spikey crab spiders. I don't see either anymore

I grew up with these living on our clothes line pole. My grandmother also had them. That’s over 50 years of these spiders just chilling on our pole. 😁

I always knew them as writing spiders.

This is a pretty spider and makes the most beautiful webs. They are friendly.

The bite won't kill you, but the heart attack will. That said we get them everywhere here in S.C. We leave them alone, they do a lot of good.

When I Was in Ga, They called em Banana Weavers.

Funky little dudes. Very cool!

It's beautiful. Very cool 😎 ❤❤❤😊😊😊 love spiders ❤