"Mueen Nawaz" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message 
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> Huge.
>
> The images, not the spider.
>

Yeah, I left them in ultra huge size, just because I'm lazy.

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"Brian Elliott" <NotForSpam@AskIfUWant> wrote in message 
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> "Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message
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>> Ok, to those of you living in more diverse regions of the planet, this 
>> may
>> not be as interesting.  But, it's probably the largest type of spider 
>> that
>> I've seen here in Michigan, so I took a few pictures.  That "thing" all
>> wadded up is a medium sized grasshopper, probably about an inch long.
>>
>> http://www.beantoad.com/newimages/img_0143.jpg
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> Michigan eh?  That is remarkably similar to the St. Andrew's Cross spider
> here in Australia (Brisbane, mid-East coast)
>
> Here's a couple of examples I took in my friend's front garden in June 
> 2005.
> Front and back views of the same spider.
>
> Also we have what we call "Garden Spiders", "Golden Orb Spiders" (very
> strong, very golden thread) and "Tent Spiders".  The latter produce a big
> upside-down parabolic tightly-wound web, connected to the surroundings by 
> a
> big messy tangle of guy-wires.
>

Yeah, a fellow at work said he thought it was a golden orb, but I haven't 
been able to find any pictures on the Web that look exactly like it.  The 
Golden Garden Spider seemed to be pretty close, but not an exact match.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> scott wrote:
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>> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/212608329_1ddb12ac0f_o.jpg
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>> The body was about 1cm long, but it's legs were probably 10cm each 
>> making it look huge and scary.
>>
> 
> Harvestman, or Daddy Long Legs, depending on your vernacular. very 
> harmless. Technically not a spider.

In the UK at least, harvestmen are very skinny spiders with small round 
bodies about 0.5cm across and long hairlike legs. Daddylonglegs are a 
type of fly reminiscent of a large mosquito but with a very skinny body 
and stupidly oversized legs just like harvest-spider. Both are 
completely harmless.

Scott's photo definitely shows an arachnid of some kind if those are all 
legs.

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>>> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/212608329_1ddb12ac0f_o.jpg
>>>
>>> The body was about 1cm long, but it's legs were probably 10cm each 
>>> making it look huge and scary.
>>>
>>
>> Harvestman, or Daddy Long Legs, depending on your vernacular. very 
>> harmless. Technically not a spider.
>
> In the UK at least, harvestmen are very skinny spiders with small round 
> bodies about 0.5cm across and long hairlike legs. Daddylonglegs are a type 
> of fly reminiscent of a large mosquito but with a very skinny body and 
> stupidly oversized legs just like harvest-spider. Both are completely 
> harmless.
>
> Scott's photo definitely shows an arachnid of some kind if those are all 
> legs.

Yeh, they were all legs.  The body was the size of your little finger nail, 
and all the legs spread out so it was about the size of an out-stretched 
hand.  It just seemed amazing to me how the legs would work being that long 
and that thin, especially as (IIRC) they had 1 or 2 joints in them too.

I did have a photo of the whole thing somewhere but I can't find it right 
now.

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> In the UK at least, harvestmen are very skinny spiders with small round 
> bodies about 0.5cm across and long hairlike legs.

FWIW, at least in the parts of the US I ever frequented, we called what 
you describe there a daddy longlegs.

 > completely harmless.

And just as a hint, never squish them in an enclosed space. We had a 
bunch in a tent in the rain, and mushed maybe three before we wound up 
sitting outside in the rain for an hour letting it air out.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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