[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.

[gop4lyf]

We get a lot of those every Spring/Summer. They get to be huge(yuge!)sometimes.

[sheana]

Yep that’s it. Yeah she told me they’re harmless and that they watched her everyday. Lol

[Jamestown1630]

Those look like the ones I’ve seen many times in North Carolina: huge spiders that spin beautiful webs all over the fencing in the tourist-y spots on the Outer Banks. They just sit there all day, waiting...they probably eat up a lot of the bad bugs.

-JT