The female usually eats her web each day and constructs a new one, often in the same place. These spiders are not particularly dangerous to people, and their bites result in nothing more than a sore, itchy swelling that goes away in a few days. 
Here’s one in comparison to my daughter:
(oh, I KID…it’s not really that big – but you try walking into one of those webs unaware…)
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Pretty Life Online
July 30, 2008 at 1:30 am (15 years ago)LOL! lovely catch for ww! mine’s up too hope you can drop by…. Happy WW!
Ryanne
July 30, 2008 at 2:24 am (15 years ago)ooh my I don’t think I like those at all, ok not a lot of think has to go into it , I do like those, but the first picture is kinda cool, the bright colors of the “monster” (that is what we call them in my house) against the brick is actually very pretty..did I just call a monster pretty…it must be a great shot then! Sorry so wordy….Happy WW
One Mom
July 30, 2008 at 3:57 am (15 years ago)Your daughter looks like I feel about spiders! Please keep them in Texas!
Busymama Karen
July 30, 2008 at 4:44 am (15 years ago)Oh my! I didn’t realize I feared spiders until now. I’m adding them to my list…frogs, mice, lizards, spiders…
Stella and Thomas
July 30, 2008 at 5:07 am (15 years ago)That is the biggest spider i have ever seen! Wow!!!
Mimi aka pz5wjj
July 30, 2008 at 5:31 am (15 years ago)Haha! Your daughter does not look amused! We had one in our garden last year — only maybe since we’re in Georgia, it was a Georgian Garden Spider?
Happy WW!
Megan (FriedOkra)
July 30, 2008 at 6:05 am (15 years ago)(Shudder.) Hey, at least it’ll eat up plenty of those nasty Texan Skeeters, right? (Just polishin’ the dull side, ma’am. Polishin’ the dull side.)
Karen
July 30, 2008 at 6:35 am (15 years ago)I’m sorry, did you say AVERAGE?! ACK! I’d be so freaked out I’d probably run INTO the web instead of away from it. And I have to agree with the commenters, your daughter’s expression is priceless!
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Misty
July 30, 2008 at 6:38 am (15 years ago)EWWWW. oh my goodness…
wildcatsthree
July 30, 2008 at 7:00 am (15 years ago)That’s quite a spider…good thing it’s not poisonous, as it seems to love your place. happy ww
marlene
July 30, 2008 at 7:17 am (15 years ago)Just the one I’m scared of! And your daughter seemed scared of it, too. 🙂
Mocha with Linda
July 30, 2008 at 8:09 am (15 years ago)Great picture!!
homeschoolceo
July 30, 2008 at 9:41 am (15 years ago)LOL! She seems so thrilled to take part in this. That spider is amazing. I recently posted a pic from a trip to NC where we discovered a Black Widow in the garden and I thought that was hair-raising. You’ve got me beat! Happy WW 😛
danandmarsh
July 30, 2008 at 9:46 am (15 years ago)Our garden spyders in Kansas don’t look like that or I’d be running for the hills!! LOL
Madeline
July 30, 2008 at 10:01 am (15 years ago)We have some like that as well. They’re huge!! Avoiding their webs is definitely advised. Otherwise you might get stuck. 😉
Debbie~
July 30, 2008 at 10:01 am (15 years ago)yuck, I hate spiders!
visit my ww for a cup of coffee!! Happy ww!
http://hann-me-downs.blogspot.com/
Summer
July 30, 2008 at 11:34 am (15 years ago)Eeewwww, spiders creep me out!
Audrey
July 30, 2008 at 11:48 am (15 years ago)That is quite a photo. We have a lot of spiders where I live and my one daughter just hates them. She makes me take them out of the bathtub before she’ll get in.
I read your interview tips on another blog, which is how I found you. I’m so glad to have read your answers. They were awesome!!
Sara
July 30, 2008 at 12:40 pm (15 years ago)I am now glad that all we have are little jumping spiders around our house.
Kelly
July 30, 2008 at 1:43 pm (15 years ago)Good grief!!!!!!!http://timkellyjenna.blogspot.com/2008/07/wordless-wednesday-my-view-from-top-one.html
Mia's Mama
July 30, 2008 at 2:01 pm (15 years ago)what is it about Texas? we get those huge banana spiders, too. they still creep me out!
Fun/creepy shots 🙂
happy ww
Natalie @ I AM (not)
July 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm (15 years ago)We have those…..eeeeeewwwww, cool, but eeeeeeewwww
Eve
July 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm (15 years ago)We had some nasty spiders in Arizona, but only the sewer roaches were that big! Glad to be back in Idaho where only the hobos scare us.
Emily
July 30, 2008 at 3:55 pm (15 years ago)very creepy looking! like mia’s mama said, everything’s bigger in texas!
Brandy
July 30, 2008 at 5:41 pm (15 years ago)oh wow that is a great (scary) picture of your daughter and the spider, though she really doesn’t look pleased lol.
Stitchblade
July 30, 2008 at 8:08 pm (15 years ago)Ohhh I have a pic of one on my blog here:
http://stitchblade.blogspot.com/2007/08/texas-is-hotand-has-crazy-bugs.html
Muthering Heights
July 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm (15 years ago)Ewww, my skin is crawling just looking at that thing!
Angie
July 30, 2008 at 9:33 pm (15 years ago)I think I’ll pass on the ‘walking into their web’ bit. Yikes!!
Have a great (spider-free) day!!
where the boys are
July 31, 2008 at 8:48 pm (15 years ago)Ok – I don’t mean to get into a “my spider is bigger than your spider” contest, but I recently had a very large visitor on my front porch as well. And if our bricks are the same size, your spider might have been a hair larger.
You tell me:
http://wheretheboysare.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/eight-legged-freak/
Kim
August 1, 2008 at 4:30 am (15 years ago)That is a HUUUUUUUUUGE spider. Yikes!!! I’m afraid of the tiniest of spiders to the biggest, it doesn’t matter. ICKY!!!!!