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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This is one of her few songs that I dislike.

Well, I’ve been listing to her for about 22 years and she’s still in my playlist. So I guess I like her music well enough.

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 …

it was showing the name on the server as the long name with details instead of just the movie name.

Yea, sounds it couldn’t match the movie. But in my expirence that rarley happens and I only rename files when a matching issue occures.

I’ve tried seeding the renamed files through the torrent but it seems since the movie names didn’t match it would start trying to download again

Another option would be to create a hardlink from the torrent folder to your library folder. That way you can have two completely independent filenames.

Why are you renaming it in the first place? You’re not even adding any new info (like the release date to the title) so why bother?

Its not really that tedious but its more so If im wanting to seed files again later, I would need the file names to match exactly.

Not sure about your torrent client but renaming a file in my client (Transmission) doesn’t prevent it from being seeded.

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?

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.

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.

It’s one of the most, if not the most, important shipping route in the world. Also the quickest way to get from anywhere in the North Atlantic to the Arabien sea/Indian Ocean.

So that’s probably the one place outside US territorial waters where they have the most business. It’s literally a bottleneck for the world economy.

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Looks like Trichonephila senegalensis. Are you in Africa or the middle east?

It’s pretty crowded around the suez canal.

What are the odds of this happening at a public parking place?

They are actually pretty good. Also I think some of the black ones might be blue.

Yeah, I’ve never heard of “Clear Play” … but it’s sooooo American.