Portia is amazing! I am a spider guy, but I don’t really have a favourite one. There are too many awesome ones.

Also, those are amazing pictures for 2004!

This species is actually the title picture of my US field guide! A very good book!

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My phone is basically a mp3 player that can do 2FA. And of course for for communicating while traveling, though often enough the phone is only there to provide the hotspot.

But other than that, I’ll use the laptop whenever possible.

Yeah, ANC quality can vary a lot and generally it’s even worse for earbuds.

I have a pair of Bose QC Ultra headphones which have amazing ANC.

A few month back there was a constuction site across the street. At one point I felt my desk vibrating, so I took of my headphones … only then did I realised they were using a jackhammer.

Yep, that’s definitely Argiope aurantia. It has quite a lot of common names, including “golden garden spider” … and it is an orb-weaver.

However it is not a “golden orb-weaver” which is the common name for the genera Nephila and Trichonephila.

there’s that distinctive radial thick web running along the diameter of her web.

Yep, they are called “stabilimenta” and we don’t really know what they do. Very common in Argiope spp.

but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

Me, wearing my noise-cancelling headphones for 10+ hours a day …

No photos? Mate … there is a livestream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPjKQtRXR8

I don’t really need silence to read, but I much prefer it.

Getting really good noise cancelling headphones was one of my best qol improvement in the last years. I often wear them without even listing to anything.

I think x/twitter is pretty accommodating of unhinged psychopaths. You should fit right in!

16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

That crictic rating though, that’s a useless measure. And 44% audience score isn’t that bad.

Ideally post them to [email protected] with as close as a location you’re comfortable with.

There are two species in the US:

Trichonephila clavipes

and Trichonephila clavata, which is only documented in Georgia.

And while similar, they shouldn’t look “exactly” the same. The picture OP posted is definitly a species that does not occure in the US.

If you had some pictures that would be great.

But, as I said, that looks exactly like the ones in Pennsylvania.

Mh, I’m quite curious now. Pennsylvania is quite far north, you shouldn’t really get any golden orb-weavers (Trichonephila)

T. clavipes - Predominantly southeastern US. Florida, Gulf States, north to North Carolina, south to Central and South America as far as Argentina.

T. clavata - northeast GA

Do you maybe mean the black and yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia?

Yup.

You are right, these spiders are “banana spiders or golden orb weavers”. That is true. But that is a colloquial name that encompases a whole bunch of different species.

And the one posted here is one that is exclusive to Africa(and Yemen, see the Map someone else posted).

So while you have very similar spiders, I’m pretty sure you dont “have those exact spiders”. At least from a taxonomic standpoint. Behaviourally those spiders very much act the same way.

“alpha males” are transgender.

According to you he is transgender and he’s very obviously an activist for that kind of identity. So that’s very much a logicial association (based on your horseshit premise).

So according to your logic Andrew Tate is a transright activists?

You never have to close a browser tab again. If a window is full just minimize it and start a new one!

I’m with you for the first part, but then you lost me.

Definitely Nephila.

In 2019 a lot of Nephila have been reclassified as Trichonephila. A lot of sources aren’t up to date with that.

I’m betting OP is in North America

Pretty sure he’s not, I know the species there. He must be in Africa or Asia. And my match in Africa is pretty good …

Going by OP’s comment/post history, he’s from Africa. So that’s that.