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Georgia's trapdoor spiders (eight species in three families) build silk-lined burrows underground with a trapdoor at the surface. The Ummidia species – females can be up to 2 inches long, making them the largest mygalomorph spiders in the state – are so shiny black they appear varnished.
You getting the Joros where you live? Those asian invaders are everywhere at our house.
They're also really cool-looking, like an Aztec god or something. Freaking huge as well, but not as big as the tropical Golden Orb Weavers. They eat all kinds of horrible shit like wasps and stink bugs, but are displacing our native orb weavers.
Here's a couple pics I took of one eating a yellow jacket:
https://pic8.co/sh/viGHHI.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/1ujXO2.jpg
Couldn't get a good pic of the silver pattern on its back without sticking my head in its web/holly tree:
US Georgia? Lived in Ft Benning for six years never saw one. What’s with the “logo” on its ass?
Yes. They burrow in sloping ravines and riverbanks here in the south. Looks like a coin on it, really neat looking critter.
Yeah it’s quite the designed up spider. Looks like he was partly hand carved out of an acorn. Learn something new everyday on here, thanks for the info!
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