Hi! I saw a cool spider on my walk tonight
It was dark orange with light orange and brown markings across the body which seemed to be about 2” in length. Maybe the size of a good peach pit.
It was sitting in a web which had a face about 3-4 feet and supporting webs that likely exceeded 60 feet in length.
It sat in the center of its web and did not react to light
I think it would be really funny
Location: West Coast of Florida. Suburban town.
For the past two nights, me and my girlfriend have been trying to stargaze in our neighborhood from hammocks suspended between two trees.
On two separate occasions, however, we have been attacked by some kind of ferocious beast of an insect. First, it was my girlfriend. And then it was me. In two separate locations on different days around the same time 10-11pm
Both times, it presented the same. The feeling of *something* crawling around our legs (the lower part of the hammock). For my girlfriend, who was bit, she exclaimed loudly at the time and insists that the sensation felt something like a bee sting or a spider bite. She lifted her leg up and when I turned on my flashlight I saw a truly gnarly looking bug.
I think it may have had more than 6 legs. My girlfriend insists it was 6. I remember it being brown and long and having some wicked mandibles. It was around 1.5-2 inches. My girlfriend also describes the mandibles as being striking. We both agree it was fuzzy looking in texture. We left the hammock and didn’t see it. We still went inside.
For me, I felt something crawling on my shorts and asked my girl to use her flashlight to look at it. I was laying down. I saw her reaction as she recoiled and I knew she saw the bug again. We left the hammock and did not see it again.
Anyone have any ideas? I wanted to take the bugs side the first time. Maybe he was scared because he was squished by mistake? But this is the second time we see the same dude and he’s on us.
Sorry for no pics