Just had to share this with all of you. I don't know what kind of spider it is, but this is wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I've lost track of how many times I've watched it. It evidently is a pet spider. Sicarius terrosus, or Six Eyed Assassin Spider.
I found it very interesting and amusing .

After I got over being creeped out, it did make me laugh! I can't imagine liking spiders so much that I'd want one for a pet.

We've got lots of spiders around lately. I was out on the back porch one day last week and outside the screen room up on the eave beneath the porch roof I saw what I figured was probably a spider egg sack ... kind of forgot about it until a couple of days ago when I noticed these; there were so many I couldn't get them all in the frame.

Spider Babies .................................. and Adult (Mama or Daddy?)


And, I was out taking a photo of a butterfly a few minutes ago and jumped again when I saw the big Spider that's been living in the Plumbago shrub for a few weeks.

Black & Yellow Garden Spider:

We have one of those black and yellow garden spiders on our front porch. It's not going to like it when I water the pots today, It's using the brick and a pot leaves to hold up its web.

Nope, I don't think it's not going to be a happy spider.

I had one of the black and yellow garden spiders last year in one of the semp beds. Not sure where he/she went to this year? I also have Trap Door spiders in the beds. They look like small versions of tarantulas.

I've never heard of Trap Door Spiders, had to google! They do look scary! https://www.google.com/search?...

They actually are quite docile and not threatening at all. I always move them to a safe place when I am digging a bed. They are very good to have around.

I just looked at all the pics in that link. I hope I don't have nightmares tonight!

The black and yellow garden spider that was on our front porch left, because in order to save a harvestman ('daddy longlegs'), I moved the web to help him out so he wouldn't be a meal and after awhile the garden spider left. He gets to live another day!

I have a kinship with the harvestmen.