Bandersnatch said:

Make some beautiful webs.

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andyistic said:

I was bitten by one of these when I was a kid:

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ComputerTekGuy said:

It's a Golden Orb

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There's no way it's a Golden Orb Weaver. You can tell it's an argiope from the zigzag pattern it forms in its web.

Also the markings are different.

^^^Golden orb, leg markings and abdomen markings are different.



^^^ Argiope, fatter one than the one in your picture but look at the legs.

danlennon3 said:

I remember reading a trip report here about someone who got bit by one while trippin!

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JonnyOnTheSpot said:

yeah..golden orb aka garden spider. i always called them garden spiders. those things get pretty fucking huge. i bet the bites hurt like hell.

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Maybe you call Argiopes Golden Orb Weavers where you are but this is seriously Argiope Aurantia Or a Black-and-Yellow Argiope.

This is a picture of the underside of a Black-and-Yellow Argiope. It has identical markings to those shown in the orginal post.



This is apparently a common spider to North Carolina. Also:

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In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope...

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