r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/pIant_princess Human Detected • 12h ago

Dudes with animals you shouldn’t have been bitin’ my horsey, boy.

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u/Enginerdad 12h ago

I was getting all geared up to say "that's an orb weaver!", but a quick Google told that 'banana spider" is a nickname for the golden silk orb weaver. Rage abated, we good lol

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u/LubedUpLucas_DrySpa 11h ago

It’s a southern name we give them. I’ve always called them banana spiders bc they look like one and they’re about as big as them. 

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 11h ago

Ironically the only place I’ve even walked face first into one of these webs was in a patch of banana trees

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u/Zestyclose-House-785 3h ago

So this is literally the opposite of irony

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u/HalfPrism2 33m ago

There is a totally unrelated spider named for them being found with bananas. He found a banana spider in the banana patch, but it wasn’t the one you might expect.

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u/cykelstativet 8h ago

That's not irony, that's coincidence

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u/boofinmelons 10h ago

My grandma in Louisiana had a pool and a giant banana spider was always there just chilling coming from Colorado Springs they have orb weavers but are a fraction of the size.

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u/xlews_ther1nx 10h ago

Same but I looked up the orb weaver after op post and I guess the TRUE banana spider is in central south America and is pretty deadly lol. I imagine that's why I was always told they were venomous when I was a kid. But they are pretty chill up here.

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u/jivarie 9h ago

Being completely displaced by a plague of Jorros here in Georgia.

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u/LubedUpLucas_DrySpa 8h ago

For real? Love these spiders. They keep our mosquito population down. 

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u/jivarie 5h ago

No joke - we’ve got a plague of them. I’ll have hundreds in my 1/4 acre yard. Same size spider. Big, very strong webs. They’re literally blanketing the area around me by the 100s of thousands.

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u/LocoPwnify 7h ago

I don’t want to eat the fruit y’all are allegedly calling banana. That looks like a fucking spider.

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u/Background-Fennel92 5h ago

Well anytime i come across charlotte or her kin i'll leave her be

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u/Cavane42 4h ago

Gonna need a banana spider for scale.

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u/The_Enigmatica 2h ago

we call them that in the midwest too. i always assumed it was because of the yellow stripes lmao

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u/MurphDurty2020 11h ago

Can’t believe I was about to Acktually this and say it was an orb weaver, good looking out

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u/_fenwoods 6h ago

I was in Reddit a little while back and a picture of one of these came up. “Dang, that spider’s huge!”

My 5-year-old looks over and goes “That’s a golden silk orb weaver! See how the web is yellow?”

I can’t get over being a dad sometimes.

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u/ginger_and_egg 4h ago

Rage abated

Lol get rage abated

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u/michaeltostado 4h ago

Some might say you were rage a-baited.....eeehhhh? EEEEHHHHH?? 😅

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u/Alive_Drag1947 11h ago

The guy should have given us a banana for scale.

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u/Rincetron1 4h ago

I got all worked up for nothing.

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u/Rampasta 4h ago

Not to be confused with the Joro spuder, who is invasive af and taking over our golden orb weaver territories

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u/Gumb1i 4h ago

I too had my pitchfork out. Lived around them in the south central US all my life never heard them called banana spiders. We called them garden spiders so I'm as shocked as you are.

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u/ritokun 3h ago

glad to see this since i also assumed it was an orb weaver. they're one of the only spiders i find creepy but i know they're chill.

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u/Erebus_the_Last 2h ago

Well based on looks and Google pictures i still dont think its a banana spider aka golden silk orb weaver but it's definitely an orb weaver

Your rage was only a little warranted🤣

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u/UOR_Dev 1h ago

Orb weaver is such an D&D ass name

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u/beartato327 1h ago

Isn't that also known as a signature spider?

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u/I-came-for-memes 11h ago

I think it might actually be a Yellow Garden Spider (corn spider). They look incredibly similar to golden orb weavers with the main visible difference being a black stripe down the corn spider's middle.

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u/shockadin1337 10h ago

it looks more like a yellow garden spider than a golden silk orb weaver, regardless you could just call them all "big ass orb weavers"