(April 26, 2011 at 2:50 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: I used to shoot these (banana or golden orb spiders) out of trees when I was younger & meaner.
They can eat small birds & that one isn't even close to the largest one I've seen.
This is one of the many reasons I don't live in the southeastern US and I don't visit South America. Spiders were meant to be stepped on ... not run over with a truck, stuffed and hung over a goddamn mantle.
christ! that thing is huge!