Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My season got off to a weird start!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Speaking of spiders....how about this baby. A Banded Argiope.

She spanned at the very least three inches from leg to leg. Her web was constructed right in the middle of a huge patch of waltheria indica growing in the back pasture. That area was frequented by hundreds of butterflies all day long. I checked on her every weekend for three weeks last year then we hard some strong rains and cold temps and the waltheria died down and I couldn't find her. Sad to think of all the butterflies she rolled up for a late night snack but at times you have to respect nature and admire her macabre beauty.

My sister-in-law would not get out of the truck - she'd just look at it through the binoculars and scream how huge it was and for me not to get close to it :o)

~ Cat