HELP! What kind of spider is this?

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smorrigan Holyoke, MA Sep 20, 2009

I am a totally arachnophobic and I found a couple of these on my porch. I need to know what they are?They seem HUGE! I'm in Western Massachusetts.

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drrex Irvine, CA Sep 20, 2009

Do you have another picture? It is hard to tell from this angle. It could be an orb weaver, in the genus Neoscona.

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smorrigan Holyoke, MA Sep 28, 2009

Yeah I have this one too.

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Fireflyy Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Sep 28, 2009

I spent the entire morning today trying to move and get this thing off my property. There are a LOT of these exact same spiders all around my house but this one is huge. Looks EXACTLY like the pic you posted. I am including one too.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 28, 2009

Another possibility is Araneus diadematus, known as the cross spider or European garden spider - see http://tinyurl.com/ybrlf5g for images. This European species has become well-established in North America.

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Fireflyy Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Sep 28, 2009

suunto...that is it. That is the exact spider in the picture I posted. Glad to have it identified, thank you very much.

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Fireflyy Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Sep 29, 2009

If you move a spider to a different location, will it come back? This thing terrified me but I didn't want to kill it so I had my boyfriend take her on a stick down and across the street to some vines which she crawled right into. Just wondering if it might find it's way back here. Probably wasn't the best thing to do, I know, but at least we didn't kill her.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 29, 2009

It'll probably do O.K. there. As far as I know, these spiders do not have any 'homing' instinct, but if your area is a favorable spot for a web, another spider may move in and build one there.

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