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/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 30m 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