All Wisdom Cometh From The Lord
Saturday, October 27, 2007
North American Banana Spider

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My husband just returned from A camping trip in South Georgia, He took this picture of A Banana Spider in it's web. He said that one crawled on his shoulder and he almost screamed like A girl,lol, but I told him it's ok anybody would of . These things are as big as Tarantulas (Ugh, that name gives me the willies), and they are not venomous..  Even though it's creepy, It's A beautiful creature GOD created and it's pretty awesome at what it can do, Take the web for instance A material stronger than steel made by A little bug, well in this case a big bug, Isn't GOD Amazing,He's so wise and puts things together so well. I thought I would put A few links in here about Banana Spiders and webs so we can all learn a bit more about them. The picture my husband took has a bit too much flash for you too see it's full pattern, and although I wouldn't want one crawling on me, I find It really is A beautiful creature. some of  the links below have some very nice pictures.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-banana-spider.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_silk_orb-weaver

http://www.shadygrovetrainingcenter.com/Wildlife/bannana_spider_photo_gallery.htm%00

http://pelotes.jea.com/spiders.htm

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/golden_silk_spider.htm

http://frank.itlab.us/spider_2002/

http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Nephila_clavipes

http://bugguide.net/node/view/2023/bgimage

 http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/baspid3.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_silk

http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/071697.html

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01678.htm

http://www.pestproducts.com/spider-webs.htm

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/interdisciplinary_research/report-10651.html

http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1_50/spider_silks.htm

http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~mbeals/spider.html


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