I've been watching this guy for a couple weeks now. Tried to take pictures before, but my close-ups are nothing to write home about. Today I went out to take a look around and the pattern on this web caught my attention. He is doing a zig zag stitch.
I don't know what kind of spider this is, good, bad or indifferent. I thought he was very interesting with his weave and after about 50 shots, I finally got some semblance of clarity.
Any thoughts?
Molly
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Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Argiope_aurantia
All spiders are considered to be good as they eat bugs :)
Nice shot Btw.
Milan
Milan,
Thank you for that site. I learned a couple things over there. And thanks for the compliment on my photo.
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Wow, I've never seen a spider do something like that. Pretty talented little guy!
I found 2 more of these spinning webs over my sweet potato vines. If they are bug eaters, then they are sitting fat and happy back there. I have a gazillion gnats swarming the yard for the rotting mangos.
I am I am cleaning up the mangos twice every day, so hard to keep up. I'll be so glad when that tree stops dumping them down.
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Giorio,
Thank you for posting that link. Those were fantastic pictures and the members contributions of information was great. I really enjoyed it.
Now I am not afraid of 2 kinds of spiders. This is the other one. I call it a crab spider, but I'm sure it's not the name. Painting exterior houses, I knock these webs down all the time, the next day, the web is back up again and spider is there.
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http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Gasteracantha_cancriformis
Yep those are some amazing looking spiders
