Pretty sure that's your common garden spider. They make some big ass webs. Not poisonous to humans as far as I recall.
There's like 2 homer Simpson profiles on that spider, rad!
Is it just a garden spider?
How weird. They must not be common around here, so it seems exotic to me.
The only other "rare" spiders I've seen in this area are green lynx spiders, and black trap door spiders. Now those are freaky!
We also get these huge fucking housekeeping spiders here. When I was a teenager, my grandmother's house had one, and I shit you not, it was probably 6 or 7 inches across. I would go into the utility room bathroom to take a piss during one of our late night D&D sessions, and BAM! He'd be right there above my head on the ceiling. Scared the shit out of me on many occasions like that.
I found it in a nature reserve area in Costa Mesa, near Newport Beach. It was pretty big, about 1.5" to maybe 2". I've never seen anything like it here.
I don't know if it's venomous or not, so I tried to keep my distance.
There's like 2 homer Simpson profiles on that spider, rad!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCO56iyBXtU
and that sounds like the common huntsman spider. They can grow up to eleven inches in length and never spin webs.... hence the name.
I fucking hate these spiders. I work in telecommunications (fixing phone lines). I can guarantee there's at least 3 of these fuckers hiding inside every elevated joint. They shed their skin too. So if you see like 40 small discarded skins drop, from the joint there's guaranted to be one giant bastard in there somewhere.
To be honest they're not the brightest of spiders. They have no spider sense if one ever existed and i've seen them get taken out by groups of ants without even putting up a fight.
I recently had to kill a Black Widow, which frustrates me. I used to be extremely phobic of all spiders, but now they don't bother me. I just don't like having to kill something that's generally helpful.but my mother killed a Brown Recluse in her apartment a while back.
Earwigs?I do see those tiny centipede/maggot looking things all the time. I'm sure there's a colony or two around my apartment somewhere.
I found it in a nature reserve area in Costa Mesa, near Newport Beach. It was pretty big, about 1.5" to maybe 2". I've never seen anything like it here.
I don't know if it's venomous or not, so I tried to keep my distance.
I recently had to kill a Black Widow, which frustrates me. I used to be extremely phobic of all spiders, but now they don't bother me. I just don't like having to kill something that's generally helpful.
And all spiders are venomous..