What spider is orange with black and white striped legs, has a huge yellow bubble back with black spots?

Question

What spider is an orange-ish red color with black and white striped legs, has a huge yellow bubble shaped back with black spots? It was not a small spider either. It was the biggest one I've ever seen. It was found in the woods of Wisconsin across the Mississippi from Red Wing, Minnesota.

Answer 1

This is likely a garden orb weaver, and possibly a longjawed

orb weaver, or even a golden silk orb weaver.

The latter, I have seen larger than my hand.

here are some flavors:

http://www.spiderzrule.com/goldenorbweaver.htm

http://www.cirrusimage.com/spider_longjawed_orb_weaver.htm

Answer 2

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What spider is orange with black and white striped legs, has a huge yellow bubble back with black spots?

What spider is an orange-ish red color with black and white striped legs, has a huge yellow bubble shaped back with black spots? It was not a small spider either. It was the biggest one I've ever seen. It was found in the woods of Wisconsin across the Mississippi from Red Wing, Minnesota.

Answer 3

Orange And White Spider

Answer 4

Big Orange Spider

Answer 5

It doesn't sound like a tarantula. At least not the ones we get around here in New Mexico. Those spiders are usually solid black.

Answer 6

Sounds like some variety of orb weaver spider. Do an image search of Google and see what they look like. Very common, and in a good year sometimes they get really big.



http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Pha&resnum=0&q=orb%20weaver%20spider%20midwest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Answer 7

You might be able to identify it on one of these sites:



http://www.spiderzrule.com/



http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740



http://www.whatsthatbug.com/



http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html

Answer 8

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may be the TARANTULA spider..



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for more details please read this link..

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