Argiope aurantia the common garden spider. yesterday i was at my grandfathers house.(he is a botnist) and i say a very large garden spider.almost like an instinct i wanted to hold it ,if you dont no what they are they are about 1.2'' diameter and are a beautiful yellow .so i went on toask my granfather about it. he said that when ever he finds there eggs in he brings them back to his house and releases them into his flower beds and all over and around his house.after further inspection i noticed that they were evey where,there were webs in every flower garden.i asked him if they were poisionus .he wasnt sure but he went out a ript one from its web and placed it in my hand.i must admit i was a lil shakey i am use to tarrantulas but this was completly diffrent as it walked across my arm it spun a web that coverd my arm in no time .(it was a amazingly strong.after holding him for a few minutes a let her go.i am quit proud of my self ,when i was a child i hated those spiders i was flat out terrified of them but not any more.my qestion is .is it very poisionus.also is it true that in japan they raise these spiders and compete them to see who has the largest one?
handling Argiope aurantia
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wait a min though i was told all spiders are venomus but what about whipless scorpion therespiders right i know there no venomus ,also those cammel spiders in iraq i dont think they are venomus .well i was told that any way so are they speders
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camel spiders are solpugids not spiders (though I think one species is venomous), and neither are the tailed/tailless whip scorpions
there are camel spiders/solifugids everywhere; if you're hearing about them in Iraq specifically you're probably also hearing an untruity associated with it.
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certian species of spiders are nonvenomous. Most are however to some extent or another. Camel spiders are not spiders and (to my knowledge)none are venomous. There are a lot of things that folk tales have made out to be dangerous that are nothing of the sort. My dad said that when he as a kid , they believed that tarantulas were deadly.
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Glad you guys got that all cleared up. 
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Actually there is one species of solpugid which is thought to be venomous, but not medically signifficant.
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Well . . . back to Argiope aurantia . . .
Sounds like fun! FunnyLori and I got a hold of two Argiope specimens recently -- one was A. aurantia and I actually handled it for a minute. For some reason I can handle scorps without a problem, but true spiders weird me out.
Mine also left a substantial silk trail on my hands.
Sounds like fun! FunnyLori and I got a hold of two Argiope specimens recently -- one was A. aurantia and I actually handled it for a minute. For some reason I can handle scorps without a problem, but true spiders weird me out.
Mine also left a substantial silk trail on my hands.