Comments on: Garden Spider

By: samantha

samantha — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:10:37 +0000

my neighbor has a black and yellow spider on her porch and i was just wonderin if it was poisenouis

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:34:26 +0000

I love your Site … It is the BEST SITE i have Found on SPIDERS

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:33:18 +0000

This SITE is the TOP SITE on SPIDERS i have EVER FOUND …

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:32:27 +0000

i have one of these spiders BLACK & YELLOW with SPOTS in a Cage i just got it out of my Garden.. can you tell me if this spider can do okay in a 10 gal Fish Tank.. i love the way it looks ..

By: caleb

caleb — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:58:29 +0000

y do these garden spiders shake thier webs??

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:54:41 +0000

Hi there, I’m from NC and I just found a huge female golden orb spider- a black & yellow agriope I believe. I just wanted to make sure they are not dangerous, I have 2 young children and will have my 2 pre-teen nephews over this week. I watched her for about 20 minutes today, and took many pictures of her. I’d like to try to feed her but I’m not sure what to throw in the web, we have a lot of beetles & junebugs?? As far as size goes she’s the biggest I’ve ever seen, about 3 inches in length and leg span of 5 inches. The coloring on her is mainly black with a yellow and white pattern on the top of the body, she seems to stay on the web with her head facing downwards. I’m a little scared of spiders after being bitten by a brown recluse almost 3 years ago which left me with a raspberry sized scar near my eye, so I just wanted to verify that this spider isn’t a danger to me or my family. I’ll be sending a picture in as she is quite beautiful!!!

Julie

By: DarkAngelWithNonentity

DarkAngelWithNonentity — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:24:52 +0000

The first Golden Orb Spider I encountered was a giant black and yellow marked Argiope. I was chasing one of my mongrel dogs who had gotten off it’s leash when I saw something catch in the light… I was bent over climbing into a clearing of brush and I look off to the side and see the most beautiful massively huge spider web I had ever encountered in Kansas… Then as I stood up to marvel at the web.. I realize I am face to face with this HUGE spider!!! At the time I will admit that it frightened me very much!!! I screamed and fled in the opposite direction. The next day I returned to the same location and watched the spider for a very long time. I watched her mend her web, bask in the sunlight, and even feed. They truely are amazing creatures. Very tranqualizing and hypnotic. I do not have an arachniphobia by any means… I used to raise European King Scorpions and I had a couple tarantulas when I was younger… But when I saw a spider so large just “chillin in my back yard” it caught me off gaurd and nearly scared the life out of me.. Especially after a near face to face collision!! I found another one the day after on my front porch. They truely are magnificent beauties to marvel at.. Especially these particular types. Nonaggressive and nonvenomous.

By: speedway

speedway — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:47:18 +0000

garden spiders are very cool

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:53:45 +0000

i found black garden spider with red on it’s back..i would like to know what i can feed him/her..I’m old and lonely and this is the closest thing i have to a pet..any info would help very much thank you..

By: Irene

Irene — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:17:50 +0000

I’m not sure what bit me. I didn’t feel the bite. Perhaps it’s a garden spider?
I realized that night when taking a bath and saw 12 bite markings which were in a 3 dot triangle pattern set of 4 following in a backward c formation. The next day it was swollen and red all around it. So after about a week I went to the dr. which he then gave me an antibiotic. But still no clue to what insect may have bit me.
Could you please help?
Thanks Irene