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  • Actually the acutal name of it is Golden Orb Weaver but many people just call them Banana Spiders

  • Beautiful but if I had it on my face kill me

  • you sound like my neighbor gwen

  • Why hello Staff sergeant :D Glad to see the U.S army taking intrest into nautre :P

  • @murtagh6000 petty officer 1st class, u,s, navy :)

  • @svenjeder oops my bad, keep up the good work yeah (o.,o)b

  • omg...how can you touch it... let alone put it on your face...I was terrified just zooming in on one with my camera and it wasn't half as big as that :) Nice vid all the same!

  • you my friend are now called a ... badass

  • What the heck! Who goes to work and finds a humongus spider and takes it home to show off? Im surprised that thing didn't bite you!!! Taking it out of its habitat like that.

  • @g00diegood I actually put it out on my back porch where it made the biggest orb web i'd ever seen. Two days later i put it back into it's habitat in the forest behind the house.

  • @herrwest You is Cray Cray!!! hahahahah. I would never be attracted to a spider of any kind. This is a weird fetish you have

  • @g00diegood I would never deny i am crazy & weird. ha ha. Maybe you should say hi to my 4 tarantulas, lol!

  • @herrwest Why are you attracted to tarantulas eww! Creepy creatures!!

  • KILL IT!

  • I fucking hate spiders...why am i watching videos about spiders.....

  • It's so pretty <3 It's legs are so beautiful! ^^ I want one.

  • OH GOD THIS IS WHAT NIGHTMARES ARE MADE OF

  • Dude, I frickin love those spiders! Where can I find some? I live in midwest America. PS- Banana spiders are also called golden orb spiders.

  • @Ravennightwing1 Southeast USA

  • @herrwest but dude, you are right, golden orb spiders are not poisonous but they are venomous. However their venom is not lethal to humans unless they are allergic.

  • @Ravennightwing1 Actually, there are a few kinds of "banana spiders" or, spiders that just happen to be hiding in bananas that get shipped here. One of them is the Brazilian wandering spider, which is the Guinness book of records holder for most venomous spider. :S Yowch.

  • Apperently this is the biggest spider ever?

  • kind of a bad advertisement though. here in florida the banana spiders are pretty pissy. they also leave HUGE welts if u fall into their family while painting your house : /

  • Scariest mother fucking spider ever

  • i fucking hate those spiders!!!

  • @jacobcruz15 if u hate those spiders don't ride your bike down a rarely used bike path in south carolina at night. And especially don't ride through one of their 15 foot webs that they built over the path. It doesn't help your fear of spiders at all being covered head to toe in banana spider web and not knowing where that damn spider is on your body.

  • Petty officer 1st cass

  • GET MY SHOE!!!!!! -squish-

  • wow...need a 2x4...a rolled up news paper would just piss it off  D:

  • Thanks for posting this that's one gorgeous spider! I have a big golden orb weaver I just took a picture of...not nearly as big as that one tho. I've wanted to hold her and let her walk on me like you guys did here but was afraid ofd getting bitten. I know they're not lethal to humans but their bit is painful so I let her be.

  • Spiders don't bite what they are crawling on.

  • They are aggressive if provoked - I caught one before as a kid, it was fully grown adult and when I poked it with a stick to move it bit the stick.

  • Holy crap in a hand basket PO1. Seriously...

  • Awesome! Carl, you are one brave guy!

  • pretty cool bug. that dude on the other hand is weird as fuck though... I mean, I thought he was just ballsy letting the thing crawl around on him then he put it on his face. what a fuckin weirdo lol

  • @morttis That's me, i'm weird!

    

  • @herrwest Yeaaah that's real damn cute till you accidentally sneeze and agitate the spider then get bitten in the face

  • magnificent specimen you have there, I only wish I had one.

  • They eat birds. I'd rather have birds in my yard than monstrous spiders!!

  • Mother fucker is caaaraaazeee

  • WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU HAVE THAT ON YOUR ARM I CAN'T EVEN GET NEAR A BABY ONE

  • @cherryberry160 screw his arm... he put it on his FACE!

  • i just swatted at that invisible spider i was sure was there on my foot,it felt so real i can live without the legs being on any spider,damn creepy spindly probers

  • LoL. Awesome. Nightmare Fuel concentrate.

  • Dude you're crazy !

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  • yeah but that spider is so beautiful that i jizzed in my pants

  • Wow!

  • Damn Nature! You scary!

  • This woman... is braver than I could ever be. 

  • i dont care if its not poisonous it wants to kill you! lol

  • i'm going to school to be an Entomologist.... and i want some orb weavers. they are so awesome looking!

  • you are very brave people.

  • I refer to the comment about this banana spider not being the one people refer too. You mean the Genus "phoneutria" The Phonetria fera is the number one most deadly in the world.and nothing to do with Aranhas Armadeiras. I hate negative comments too. Sorry. Love your video though. Gorgeous banana spider or orb weaver.

  • when you said its not poisonous, well you're right. no spiders are poisonous. however, it is venomous. all spiders are. the golden silk spider, or golden orb weaver, as you call it, actually has venom similar to that of a black widow, just not nearly as strong.

  • Is he a Petty Officer 1st Class? I just got promoted to that (but in my school's NJROTC program so its not as important) : D

  • I bet it would take a week to wipe all the guts off of the bottom of my shoe after I stomp on it

  • why the fuck are you holding it.

  • its gonna kill u

  • KILL IT WITH FIRE XD

  • I used to have one in my garden. about the same size as the one you've got there mate!

  • the military doesn't take the brightest people....

  • i mean it looks cool and nice indeed but i don't like spiders.. Scared of them ever since my brother put a big plastic tarantula in my bed when i was like 5 hahahah

    but the spider does have nice colors!

  • mate you must have a huge pair of balls on you. I would scream if that thing was on me

  • OMG! I woulda done a huge dump in my undies if I had seen that!

  • well that guy is from army he doesn't give a damn WHAT is crawling on him! haha ARMY teaches u to be a man xD *Thumbs up for the uniform*

  • @vkmicro Too bad thats a Navy uniform E-Tard...

  • @SicDoc didn't had to go all offensive... I'm Russian so i don't know American uniforms! However THANKS for correcting me and still his form military, thats what i meant to say...

  • HOW THE HELL do u ppl let those ugly evil DEMONS crawl on u?? EWW OMG i'd chop my arm off if id' see that THING on me and then i'd burn it and then drawn it and then shoot it and then burn it some more...

  • your gonna need a big ass boot to squish that shit

  • i think your dog is a bit envious of that spider.

  • OMG HOLY FUCKING SHIT, KILL IT, KILL THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW, DAMN WTF

  • Fuck that noise.

  • Where was this caught? I love these spiders :) Thank you for letting it go. People misjudge spiders way too soon. They're really beautyfull animals and interesting to watch. And believe me, theyre more afraid of you than you are of them :D Awesome video.

  • what a big spider i'm from holland and the biggest spider there is about max 3 cm 1or 2 inch .... and i very afraid of those things ....

    if these things lived here i would never go outside !!!!

  • i see these things in every tree when i go fishing... there freakin everywhere =\

  • Beautiful? Little babycats or baby dogs are beautiful!!!! But Spiders???? Uaaaaahhhhrgh! =) Iam really afraid of spiders! I think they are really interesting but i prefer to see them with a window between us! ^^ how can you touch it? (But i dont hurting or kill them.) lol

  • Beautiful? Little babycats or baby dogs are beautiful!!!! But Spiders???? Uaaaaahhhhrgh! =) Iam really afraid of spiders! I think they are really interesting but i prefer to see them with a window between us! ^^

  • This spider is truly beautiful, but I wouldn't touch it and if it came too close to me I'd panic on finding a way to make it not be close to me without hurting it.

  • I just sharted myself

    Ps that is shitting and farting at the same time

    Psps and a little but of piss too

  • OMG!! I would do a poopie splat in my pants if that thing touched me...and the spider he's holding is a little scary too.

  • Notice it was posted in 2008, hope you included that in your Chiefs Board Package.

    No way they wouldn't promote you after seeing that.

  • I'm so jealous, I'd love to have one of those crawl around on me!

  • Oh bullshit. . . Your all wrong. . . Its not a "Golden Orb Weaver Spider" its an "Inbred Zebra" LOL!!!

  • Kill EM ALL! Thumbs up if you agree.

  • Aww man, I'm so jealous! Where do these guys live? I'm guessing in sub-tropical climates like Australia.

  • THAT THING EATS BIRDS

  • OOOOOMMMMMMMFFFFFFGGGGGGGG!!

    MAKES ME SICK

  • Is it venomous?

  • a small one

  • ive seen these spiders arnt they poisonous ?

  • ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?

    THOSE THINGS ARE SCARY AS HELL TO ME.

    I don't care if they aren't deadly, They still scare the hell out of me.

  • @roetemeteor my thoughts exactly!

  • Been a while since I let an orb weaver crawl on me. I once let this huge ass garden spider crawl on me. It's so fun to let them just wander on you! xD but then I went to go show my girlfriend and well, typical reaction

  • Why is not biting you?

  • is that sperm ?

  • I'm scared of spiders but who cares that spider looks awesome. Is it not venomous? I live in Britain so I don't know much about those spiders.

  • @1337RussianCoDPlay3r I live in britian to and its the most venomous spider in the world with the brazilian wandering spider

  • @WadonMurder

    OK. Why the heck is the guy letting it crawl on him? Does it only sting/bite when provoked?

  • A WOMAN!!! THAT LIKES SPIDERS!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!! LOL

  • @21MaD12 haha, Im a girl and i like spiders. the biggest thing we have in my area though is a garden spider.....

  • Where does he work? This is very interesting!

  • i wud have killed that spider quickly

  • Fuck spiders.

    I'd set this bitch on fire and piss on it's ashes.

  • omg thats freakin creepy! and its huge!!!

  • thank you for this awesome video. That spider is so beautiful. watching this had me mesmerized. :)

  • @velvetkytten Your welcome! Thank you for the nice comment. I don't get many of those here.

  • @velvetkytten you must live in Australia

  • I'm fairly certain i found one of these spiders in the jungle in a very peculiar spot in Brazil.....only it was black with red stripes, and the larger of two i came across had a leg span of at LEAST 10"...i thought it was closer to 13" but i always wonder if people don't blow things up in their minds eye. I suspect i found what would easily qualify as the largest web-spinning spider in the world - one of these days i'll go back find it...and name it after myself ;)

  • srry i got mixed up with brazilian 1 ooops

  • no people your getting mixed up.this one IS harmless.srry herrwest i got mixed up too. XD

  • It would be wise for you to clarify this isn't the spider that people commonly refer to as "Banana Spider". The spider most commonly referred to as "Banana Spider" is the Brazilian Wandering Spider or Aranhas Armadeiras, and unlike the spider you're handling in the video (Argiope Aurentia or the "St. Andrews Cross Spider"), the Brazilian Wandering spider's venom is ofren said to be one of the three most deadly venoms on Earth, and it has fangs so long and thick they can pierce a human toe-nail.

  • @fantabulousK I clarify that it is not deadly in the description.

  • @herrwest Well, you said "Banana Spider" and "Not poisonous" which technically is incorrect as its venom not poison, but you clarified a bit in the description. This guy is correct on the species, "St. Andrews Cross Spider" as a golden orb weaver is a bit different. But all of these types of spiders have a venom that will be similar to a black widow / brown recluse bit... Meaning, it will leave a fairly large lesion where it bit. Not fun, not a play toy.

  • @fantabulousK No the spider that can bite threw a toe-nail is the sydney funnel web spider (the female being the largest and deadliest)

  • @fantabulousK in australia we call them banana spiders cos they like to live in banana trees

  • @fantabulousK that is a banana spider.. do ur research lol

  • @fantabulousK btw your spider Brazilian wandering spider is called a banana spider because it hides in banana plants in south america. on the other hand... the golden orb is also known as a banana spider bc of its colours.. thanks

  • @fantabulousK Actualy, this is a Nephila clavipes and it is localy called the banana spider or golden orb weaver.

  • @MrFinkyFink what I'm saying is he should clarify the difference and no its totally not it has the stripes and it doesnt have the big feet.

  • no. freaking. way.

  • u my friend are one of the stupidest ppl ever to be on utube , a golden orb weaver is one of the mose poisonous spiders evr they create thier venom which contains i xtremly dangerous nurotoxin !!! wut were u thinking dude , GOD had his hand on u 4 tht one !!!!

  • @TTRxRider if she's one of the stupidest people on youtube, you must be the leader of the organization. Argiope Aurentia has about the same strength of venom as a yellow jacket or an army ant. While it would shing pretty damn badly to be bitten, it wouldn't be deadly unless you were allergic to the venom of this particular species of spider, and they certainly do not posess a "neurotoxin" you moron.

  • I would only hold that if it was wearing a spider-muzzle.

  • hehe nice handling

  • You are so brave! I do love golden orb spiders. They are wonderful in the garden. They are lovely and amazing to watch and look at. But never could bring myself to reach out and touch or grab one. LOL.

  • nope. nope. no way, no how, not ever. yehehehehe *cringing*

  • a great joke would've been for someone to have smashed it with a book or something right on him.

  • I have a TON of respect for you both. Seriously.

  • That spider is beautiful! There are a lot of them living in my garden :D

  • Then you have one fuckt upp creepy garden buddy

  • fuck that shit u would not get me to just tap that thing for a grand, maybe ten tho. id eat it for a million tho, any offers?

  • I would have thought a PO1 in the Navy would have more sense than this. Then again the girl thought it was pretty cool when it fell off of your hand and hung there like some creepy yo-yo.

    Ugh. I hate spiders.

  • @UtahMike41 I do have sense, this particular spider in southeast Georgia is not deadly and is non-aggressive. I just have a fascination for spiders and tarantulas, probably why i own 5 of them.

  • @herrwest I was messing with you. I have a healthy respect for spiders. I used to be terrified of them but I am getting better at having them around.

    P.S. Thanks for serving. I just got out of the Army this past July after over 25 years. 

  • @UtahMike41 It's cool. Thanks to you as well, 25 years is quite a while. I have about 7 years till retirement but i'll retire with 24 because of my reserve time.

  • @UtahMike41 What do you mean have more sense than this? The spider is not poisonous.

  • Balls.

    He has them.

  • thats nothing i saw a golden orb as huge as my whole hand with a torso the size or a spoon

  • whatthe fuck ever, those things cause you death from erection...lol, and im not kidding

  • @CaH6633 You are thinking of the wrong spider. There are several spider nicknamed banana spiders, but this particular one is actually a golden orb spider. No death from venom, no erections. Just a little sting. :)

  • @kottonmouthkween504 oh i c...lol, the one i'm thinkin of is the brazillian wandering spider.....those things are evil..lol

  • you people are FUCKED UP.

  • u let it climb on u?!

  • Hooyah! PO1!

  • I'd freak out if a spider that size even got near me, let alone if it walked on my arm....or face o.O. But then again, big spiders here are hardly half the size of that.... (luckily)

  • petty officer first class?

  • u shouldvt mess with that i just searched and those may kill with 1 2 bites

  • @mdell3 you're an idiot. no it wont. this is a golden orb weaver aka banana spider which is completely harmless to humans(other than a little red bite mark).

  • Every time I watch this video, I throw up, pass out and go into convulsions. I think it's time for me to watch a video on kittens.

  • idk what it is but for some reason i just want to punch you when that thing is on your face

  • You jackass bannana spiders are poisonous -.-

  • @klownevil no its venomous... 

  • Thats not a wandering spider! They were speaking clear english. Not in brazil. Thats what people around here call a "sun spider"

  • Dude, look it up. The dangerous wandering spider is a dull brown jobby- nothing like the orb weaver.

  • Cool video. I just posted a banana spider video myself. Search for "Banana Spider (Golden Silk Orb-Weavers) - Close Up" or visit my profile.

  • I wish I could pick up a spider like that without freaking out and accidently killing it :(

  • why are people getting mixed up with a Banana spider & Brazilian spider?yeah there both called banana spiders but banana spider/Golder Orb weavers have bright yellow spots(which is the female)and are harmless its vemon is more or less like a bee sting.Brazilian Wandering Spider are the ones you need to worry about since they have one fuckin hell of a strong venom thatll kill you in minutes flat

  • this shit can kill a bird man and hold it in its web...you´re cray dude

  • fake!

  • KILL IT!

  • UHH #EEWW

  • I usually love big spiders, but I have to admit that this one kinda creeped me out a bit haha

  • if it crawled on my face i would eat it :D

  • OMG you but that shit on your face...you are CRAZYYYY!!!!

  • you are so dumb for holding this thing, those are so dangerous and defensive.

  • @wickedjesterboi you're an idiot and you have no idea of what you're trying to talk about. that is all.

  • fuck that

  • 0:47 id like to say in the nose haha^^

    but youre kinda brave ^^

    4/5

  • I love those things even though they freak me out at the same time. lol

  • dude thats sicker than a hardcore rapist.. that shits fucked up.. seriously id rather be raped wat the fuck.. cunts fucked

  • Very interesting creatures.

  • I would have kill it instantly.