Fat Spider, Skinny Spider
Spiders are such cool creatures. And the Orbweavers with their sticky webs can give you a face full if not watching. LOL.
So the next day she was gone. All that remained was the web. I had hope she was off making a cocoon for her eggs. However I was not able to find a cocoon.
The Garden Spider goes by many common names. Some are Black and Yellow Spider, Yellow Garden Spider, Writing Spider, and Zipper Spider. And the last but first name I knew was the Banana Spider.
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Guess that spider had to find what she thought was s good place for her eggs. Sure is a pretty one. Love the sounds in the earth.
Greatness word – stabilimentum – cool that they come in many forms.
Hope you have lots of baby spiders running around some day!
We have a LOT of Argiopes this year. And lots of egg sacs. I watch their size to know when they have laid their eggs. Yours is about the biggest I have seen though. Our closest one is right in line with the window at our table and we have watched hummingbirds come up to inspect the spider multiple times a day. Quite entertaining! We keep wondering if it is the same curious hummer or different ones.
Yep sometimes I find the egg sac and sometimes I don’t. They seem to be tired the day after laying and hide out for a bit before returning to the web. We had another close view at our cabin, right out front besides our gate so we got to watch a lot of that one’s life cycle. She ate some monster grasshoppers.
I grew up calling them zig zag spiders.
Thanks for your experience with the zig zag spiders. Interesting how the common names change to where you are. 🙂
The one I told you about in the window did a weird thing this morning. Something must have disturbed it because it started bouncing the web such that the spider was hitting the window with a thump over and over and over. Later she was gone but I found her on the deck step railing. I decided it was time for her to find new digs. She had been in the persimmon tree so I herded her that direction. I guess tonight she will spin a new web, not one across our walkway, I hope. I have to clean my window now. Appears she pooped on it, or something since there is a white run down the glass.
We also got to watch the 2 young foxes this morning. They are so pretty.
That is strange but probably not to her. Perhaps she was testing the web strength? Or not😂 I hope she takes your hint and moves to a newlocation. 🤞🏼
I think she must have been touched by one of the curious hummingbirds to make her move like that, as a threatening gesture. Today a hummingbird actually went up to her (new location under the Post Oak about 10 ft away) and looked like she touched the spider with her bill. It did get a reaction out of the spider. I don’t know if the hummers are seeing the yellow color and think it is a flower or what?
Very interesting…testing the limits on a dare? Ha ha!