[sheana]

We don’t have large spiders here and if we did I’m sure my bug guy would kill them but anyway.......I was visiting my cousin in Arkansas and was coming through the garage and out the garage window I see this huge green spider on a web right there. I go in and tell cousins wife and she says......oh yeah don’t bother her. It’s just a garden spider. That thing was huge!!

[MUDDOG]

They’re good company! I liked mine a lot.

[Oratam]

I saw my first garden spider just a few years ago while pruning my mother's front bushes. My face was only inches from this thing when I spotted it.

I was frozen with fear. I think I may have started hyperventilating.

I looked it up later and was startled to find it was completely harmless. He builds an interesting web with a "banner" running through the middle. Very impressive critter.