thing crawled over my foot today as I sat shoeless on my deck. I live in the southern us, if that helps with ID.
Sorry the image is so blurry my hands were shaking from fright. It is about 1 1/2" long and brilliant orange with a HUGE abdomen or whatever they call it.
No idea on the spider, except big. Howerver, to see images hosted on tripod you have to copy and paste into your browser. Tripod doesn’t allow you to link directly to the pictures.
Place the cursor over the link. Don’t left click. Instead, right click and select “Copy Shortcut”. Then, in a new browser window, place your cursor in the address bar, right click, and select “Paste”.
You have to copy the link text: http://456321.tripod.com/spider.jpg and paste into the browser’s address. You can type it in yourself if it makes you feel better.
Tripod knows the difference between clicking to get there and direct entry into the address bar. You can’t click a link directly to a Tripod picture.