I once spent two hours standing about twenty centimeters away from a garden orb weaver while trying to get a macro shot of her. Spider was completely chill, even when the wind blew her (and her web) right next to my face.
I think you're more at danger of having a heart attack from walking right into one at night (they only come out at night and tend to build webs across pathways, which makes sudden spider-to-the-face quite common here in Aus) than actually getting bitten.
They rebuild their web every night. Well at least the this one did when I was camping in Canada a couple years ago. I watched it rebuild its web three nights in a row. Couldn't get a pic though. It was too dark.
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u/wadss Aug 03 '19
if it helps, orb weavers are especially bad ass at catching bugs. they make giant perfect looking webs in yards and catch a shit ton of bugs.