Chris: my porch spider hereby challenges your driveway spider in a fight to the death! I have no doubt mine will prevail by the way she vigorously attacked the twig I jiggled in her web. Look at her trying to poison and subdue that thing!

Just for scale, that bulbous part of her body is the size of my thumbnail. For you other people tuning in from the deep south, you have bigger spiders, I know, but up here in Michigan I don't think any of them survive the winter, so they have to start from scratch from eggs every year. So for us, this is a big spider!