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Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider (a name shared with several others), is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina. [3]
Banana spider may refer to: Cupiennius, a South and Central American genus of spiders; Phoneutria, also known as Brazilian wandering spiders, a related South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders; Golden silk orb-weaver (Nephila), a widespread genus of large but rather harmless spiders, noted for their large durable webs
Nephila spiders vary from reddish to greenish yellow in color with distinctive whiteness on the cephalothorax and the beginning of the abdomen. Like many species of the superfamily Araneoidea, most of them have striped legs specialized for weaving (where their tips point inward, rather than outward as is the case with many wandering spiders).
It is the banana spider’s doppelganger, the Brazilian Wandering Spider, that was named the most venomous animal in 2007 by the Guinness Book of World Records. To tell the two apart, take a ...
This spider is a common but often uncomfortable sight and has been dominating populations around the Palmetto State.
Banana spiders in South Carolina can grow to be quite large, which may be alarming to any unsuspecting passerby who happens to cross one’s path. In addition, they can be quite brightly colored.
Cupiennius, known by the common name bromeliad spiders or as the often confused name banana spiders, [2] is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trechaleidae, named by Eugène Simon in 1891. [3] They are found from Mexico to northwestern South America, and on some Caribbean islands.
The banana spider is a frequent and often uncomfortable sight to be seen and is dominating local areas in the Palmetto State.