I can't remember if I posted a picture of this creature or not, but this spider was living on the back of my car, over the rear license plate, for about two months. I didn't have the heart to kick him/her off.
If you don't like nature — spiders, mosquitos, mosquito-munching geckos, and moths the size of your hand — stay away from Oahu. I'll have pics of all those things later.
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i have the same spider here. living outside the window sill. what kind of spider is it?
ReplyDeleteCar spider. Final answer.
ReplyDeleteNephala clavata?
ReplyDeleteLOL
ReplyDeletei guess my spider's name would be.. window spider..
It does look like it could be a Nephila clavata, or mudang kŏmi (무당거미), which I've seen a few times in older places in Seoul where I've lived, but this one on the car doesn't have as elongated a thorax as the Korean/Japanese species. But on the other side, though, it did have that same strange "freaky mask" look to it (one time it basically flipped to the other side for about a week after rebuilding its web, so I got a good look).
ReplyDeleteBut the legs weren't quite as long nor were the colors (yellow and black) as clearly separate as they are on the Korean/Japanese variety.
The other thing, of course, is that the mudang kŏmi is not indigenous to Hawaii, but then again, neither are a lot of things found there, like cats.
So it could be. I should ask a local (Hawaiian) entomologist to see. If it is a local thing, I'm sure there's some colorful lore that's associated with it.
It liked on the back of my car for about two months, becoming something of a biology experiment for me. Even the people who did the safety check on my SUV at Jiffy Lube left it alone, after doing a comical double take upon seeing it.
so it might not be an endangered specie...
ReplyDeletethanks! now i can crush it.
WORD VERIFICATION: pilat
translated to my mother tongue it means to flatten. =)