Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: I need help Identifying this spider - HELP...., 1 by schlanger83544

schlanger83544 wrote:
We have 2 HUGE spiders outside our Dunlap, Tn cabin.
I got close enough to get an estimate of length and width. From the end of his abdomen to the tip of its head it is about 1.5 to 2 inches long. The abdomen is HUGE. On its own it is about an inch long and about 3/4 to a whole inch wide. The abdomen is tall as well. There is a pattern along the back of the abdomen. The base color looks as if it were brown and rolled around in pollen. Then there is a brown design going vertically along its back that has 2 brown outer stripes with some brown and tan splotches between the two stripes.
It’s legs are long with the front ones having the most length and the back ones being the shortest. The legs are a dark brown and yellowish striped pattern.
The spiders have taken over the whole front deck with webs. Each one has one large (4 to 5 ft) orb web. Then surrounding in smaller areas are thick dense white webs that have no orb features (Im not sure if those are just coincidental or if those are theirs). When a bug enters it’s web it waits a few seconds then runs to the bug. It quickly wraps the bug up in a THICK coat of it’s silk.
PLEASE respond we have kids and animals here and would like to know if allowing those spiders to continue living here could put anyone in danger.
Thanks,
Rebecca Schlanger