Rewilding My Lot

Converting a new developer lot into a nature ecosystem — my journey

Giant Spider Has Made An Egg Sac

A few weeks ago the biggest Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) I have seen made a web in front of our garage door. She wasn’t in the way and so I left her alone, taking photographs every once in a while.

Recently I was out of town for ten days and when I returned I saw that she had made an egg sac and tucked it into an upper corner of the web.

I do want to encourage nature here, but I wasn’t thrilled about the prospect of a thousand spiderlings perhaps finding their way into the garage!

So I climbed up onto a stool and managed to extract the egg sac with some of the sticky webbing, and then to lash it to a branch on my nearby oak tree. The rest of the web remained in place.

Momma spider had retreated while I was messing with her web, but when I had finished, she quickly returned to the center of the web where she had been feeding on a grasshopper, handily packaged in silk. I saw a few hours later that she had discarded the body on the ground.

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    […] For weeks there has been a large Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) living on a web that is at a corner of our garage opening. At some time in mid-September she made an egg sac and attached it to a corner of her web. […]

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    Mama Spider Has Gone – Rewilding My Lot

    […] her large web, eat insects that she wrapped in silk, and produce two egg sacs two weeks apart [first, second]. The photo above was taken just after she produced the second egg […]

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    What Happened To The Spider Egg Sacs? – Rewilding My Lot

    […] mid-September she created an egg sac and hung it in a corner of her web. I relocated the egg sac to a nearby oak […]

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Nature Lover.
Inquisitive Observer.
Student Gardener.

I invite you to join me on my journey to convert my sterile (from a nature point of view) new house lot to a healthy and diverse ecosystem, as I make discoveries, mistakes, and hopefully progress. I am not an expert or professional. The project started in February 2023 and the location is Seguin, Texas, USA.

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