Garden Pests and Diseases: is this a friend or foe?, 1 by trackinsand

trackinsand wrote:
the only two "bad-guy" spiders that i know of are brown recluse and black widow. there are probably more, but these two are the most familiar to people. the "garden" spiders are always the good guys and always welcome in my garden. it's funny because i just took a picture of this same spider because i love the web. hope you don't mind that i post it here. the smaller male was there too, but i couldn't get a picture of both together.