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I think these are my favorite spiders.

It has been a great year for them, I have 18 of them around our house and out buildings.
This shot was a little tricky. I had to hold the camera behind the spider and web and shoot blind. Neat effect, with the debris in the web.

I feed them as many crickets and grasshoppers as they will eat... they get huge.

We had a bunch of those around the house I grew up in as a child in Missouri! I too loved those things. I'd regularly feed them anything I caught, including grasshoppers like you

They never disappointed me because once I threw something in the web, they'd always run out and immediately start wrapping the prey. So fun to watch!

The outside of my apartment is covered in orb weaving spiders lol. The forests here also have wolf spiders who can easily measure 1.5 inches from the tip of the cephalothorax to the end of the abdomen. I even saw a black widow but it ran away before i could catch it. Maybe its egg case will hatch in the next few weeks because I can't find another black widow anywhere!

Those are both Argiope aruantia and they are awesome. The prime example of an orb weaver. As for a story: me and my little brother were discussing Carl Linneaus, the inventor of the binomial nomenclature naming system, and his belief that every organism family had one perfect species that characterized all that the family was. While talking about this, I saw a spider in the corner of my room. It was pitch black hanging upside down in a neat cobweb and had a large round abdomen with long spindly legs. I told my brother "that is the perfect example of a spider, it inspires both fear and awe and is just what someone imagines when thinking of a spider." My brother replied "is that a black widow" and I said "I think it is". It was a false black widow, but it was still awesome.

I prefer tarantulas but I do enjoy checking out the wolf spiders and things around here as well.
I have a few living near my sarracenia and flytraps. Every once in awhile the flytrap wins lol

No way! I literally found a Wolf Spider and fed it today, speak of the devil I also was just sitting on my porch smoking a cigar and there was a little jumping spider by me. So I was watching it because it was dusk and I knew the mosquitos were coming out. BOOM, it caught one. I have never seen one literally jump in the air, catch it, and retract back on its silk. It looked like a linebacker tackling a quarterback I got a picture of it with it in its mouth.

Here is a different spider which builds a new web every night, then takes it down in the morning.
We have 5 or 6 of these around the yard, it makes walking around at night something of an adventure.
I like spiders, but I hate walking into the webs at night and end up with a spider crawling on my face.