yellow garden spider
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What Happened To The Spider Egg Sacs?
Readers from last year may remember that a large Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) built an impressive web above the garage door in the fall season of 2024. In 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 tree. Two weeks… Continue reading
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Mama Spider Has Gone
For weeks I have been watching with interest a large Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) who made her home just outside our garage door. I have seen her enhance and repair her large web, eat insects that she wrapped in silk, and produce two egg sacs two weeks apart [first, second]. The photo above was… Continue reading
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Garage Spider Has Made Another Egg Sac
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. Spiders are useful residents in the garden, but I didn’t relish… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Two Pretty Spiders
I often encounter spiders here, hopefully before I have accidentally walked through their webs (which does sometimes happen, especially when they are across pathways). Here are two examples of spiders who were just quietly going about their business in the garden. Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) A distinctive feature of the Yellow Garden Spider is… Continue reading
About Me
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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