There are many different types of garden spider, most of the time these spiders are found in the lawn or garden but can also be found within the home as well.
These spiders include the following: meshweb spiders, crab spiders, running crab spiders, wolf spiders, nursery web spiders, comb-footed spiders, stretch spiders, orb-web spiders, sheet web spiders, dwarf spiders, sac spiders, and buzzing spiders. Most all of garden spiders are orb weaving, which basically means that they are known for their orb looking webs.
The most prominent time for a garden spider is during the fall. The main difference between the variations of the garden spider mostly has to do with their appearance and there are in fact quite a few similarities.
Garden Spiders
The garden spiders weave large flat webs suspended between plants, across paths, along window and door frames. They are generally found outdoors, although they may find their way indoors as fall progresses to winter. Some garden spiders tend to prefer wooded and shrubby areas, while others prefer sunny areas around houses and tall grasses. The Garden spider is actually most noted for spinning webs.
There are many different types of garden spiders, as listed above, however two common species are the European garden spider and the Argiope garden spider. The European garden spider is recognized by its large tan and gray body with mottled tan or brown markings across the back, which is also highlighted by five or more large white dots forming a cross like shape. The Argiope usually is yellow or black with two rows of three white spots along its back. The Argiope also spins their web with a very unusual zigzag pattern in the center of it.
The Final Act!
The female garden spider will sometimes eat the male spider after mating, but not usually. Rather the male garden spiders will usually mate with several females, and then often die from starvation and exhaustion, since they spend little effort feeding while searching for females.
The garden spiders diet consists of whatever they can catch in their webs. The garden spider will eject poison into their prey and eat almost all of it, eventually sucking out the liquefied contents of their prey’s body. The Garden Spiders is not aggressive and they are not poisonous to humans. Because they are not aggressive spiders, it is rare that one would actually bite a human. In some circumstances if they feel threatened or if they are pressed up against human skin, in that rare occasion they might bite a human. Even though garden spiders are not poisonous it is still important to seek medical attention, just in case the species of the spider is not identifiable.
I am doing research on Argiope Aurantia for school. I am trying to create a poster to show not only the spider it self but to also show what the bite of this paticular spider looks like. Most of the sites I have found will give pictures of the spider but not of the spiders bite. All the other sites that I have found will only focus on the more dangerous spiders, i.e… Black Widow and Brown Recluse. Which does not help me. Where else can I look or how can I refine my search to find what I am looking for?
What kind of spiders make very big webs ad colonies live in them?We see them right outside our house,in concrete blocks(they’re by our windows). It’s almost a beautiful site to see,almost.
I have red back spiders in a rabbit hole in my rental . We covered the rabbit hole with an old bin lid and later we opened it and saw three red back spiders.
We have had a garden spider in her web all summer attached to our kitchen window. It has been so interesting to observe her. Our two year old grandson loves to watch and sing the spider song with me. What will happen to her this winter? We have noticed she is not as active on cold days as she is on warm. Will she stay on her web or go somewhere for the winter?
Hi,
I’m at university in Writtle, Essex, UK and found a spider with boyfriend (who is terrified of them ) by my bathroom. Its got a huge abdomen and is a light brown, tan colour with thin legs and a white pattern down its back. I would like to know if it dangerous – at the moment its in a jar. I’m OK with spiders but this one is actually kinda freaking me out. Do we even get these spiders in the UK and why in my room?? If its meant to be a garden spider… Please someone help me!!
Jess
Hello,
need some help…We were driving home from a hockey game in Livonia Mich(we live just over the Line from Toledo, Oh in Mich) and a spider came from the inside of my van sliding door, then another, then another!!!! According to my freaked out daughter….it was black w/ maybe some red and green on the body about the size of a peanut. I just killed them…didn’t look at them.
Are these spiders harmless? could there be a nest in my door?? We sprayed down inside the door to take care of any more “friends”!!! I hope we don’t see any more…I’m not sure I’ll get my daughter in the car to go to school tomorrow!! If anyone might know what this spider might be or if it is harmful please respond!!
Thank You!!
Stacey
I have spiders around plants and they make a triangle web. It is thick and very sticky! If it is near a plant the plant starts to show some damage or a part of it dies. I hate these spiders!!! They ruin my plants. They don’t sound like garden spiders and they don’t come out in the daytime, only at night. If anyone has any info on these pests please email me with some info. They also like to hide in crevices during the day. cnangle [at] comcast.net Thanks!
love this spider it looks so quick and agile, just like spiderman.
Jennifer,
Without spiders our homes would be invaded by flies, stink bugs, mosquitoes, and all sorts of other bothersome insects. I suggest you not kill the spider and allow Mother Nature to survive and thrive.
Hi, I am Jennifer, if you are looking at this comment i have a garden spider that is venomous and i call it the deadly viper it’s a female i shut all my windows so it can’t get in my house so any ways you people are crazy by loving spiders in the name of god it is trying to kill you kill it before it kills you or the babies GOOD NIGHT!!!
Ara is right. Pat, Colli you are mistaken. I don’t believe there is a single spider that is poisonous, meaning that if you ate it you would get sick. Transmission of toxicity is through injection of venom, unlike a poison which is absorbed through consumption. Pat, next time you spout off about someone’s discrepancy it might be wise to at least look at a wiki page….
“Venom is the general term referring to any variety of toxins[1] used by certain types of animals that inject it into their victims by the means of a bite or a sting.[2] Unlike poison, which is ingested or inhaled into the victim’s tract, administration of venom is usually directed into the lymphatic system itself for faster action.”
Thus Spiders ARE NOT POISONOUS. They are VENOMOUS! Yet most spider venoms do NOT have a significant reaction in humans to cause concern or create need for medical attention, but you never can be certain or too careful when it comes allergic reactions like anaphylaxis. That’s why if you get bit by something it is best to get it checked out especially if your unable to positively identify what envenomated you. Or if pain, discoloration, nausea, etc. becomes present after the bite. Better to be safe than sorry.
Good information but for some reason my head hurts from reading that last comment by Pat Colli, no offense. After reading the comment a few times to understand it and eventually taking some Advil I decided to add my own. The vague part about “poisonous” garden spiders in the article and Steven Ward’s comment might have been understood better using different terminology. At least it helped me prior to this site.
Probably, like many that ended on this site I had some interest in spiders since I’ve been literally running into them a lot lately. \
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Q. Is this spider poisonous?
A. No, spiders are NOT poisonous, they are venomous. Technically all venoms are a poison however not all poisons are venoms. Many times people get confused because someone says that a spider is poisonous while another says it is venomous. Any type of animal like a spider or snake that injects a toxin into your body is venomous. If you touch or eat a toxin from a plant or animal and become sick, then it is poisonous. Spiders that inject toxins from fangs, snakes and some lizards are venomous while plants, amphibians, and fungi (mushrooms) are all poisonous. So as a rule – poison is ingested (eaten), venom is injected. Poisonous toxins – chemicals that are harmful to the body – must enter the body through the mouth, venomous toxins enter through the skin.
VENOMOUS OR POISONOUS?
Just to straighten out a common misconception!! Spiders are venomous NOT poisonous. Poisonous means if you ate it, you would get sick, venomous means that it injects its venom into you.
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So depending on the spider and it’s anatomy if venom is injected it can be anywhere from life threatening to ones that have little or no risk at all. But like the write-up states, it’s good to take pre-caution; some people can have allergic reactions, etc.
Venom or no venom, I still can’t stand walking into any type of spider web.
I do not care for spiders any spiders but when a garden spider decided to take up residence on my front porch it brought back memories when I was a little girl. My father was a nature freak and he show us how to feed the garden spider buy catching flies and throwing them into the web. It was amazing to watch them take their prey and spin their web around their bodies and she would take it back to the middle of her web and have dinner. Now that I am much older I decided to show my kids the same thing and they were amazed as well. So needless to say that spider is eating very well.
Steven Ward says: the comment is made that the spider is not poisonous. This is FALSE. ALL SPIDERS ARE POISONOUS.
Pat Colli says: The article said: The garden spider will eject poison into their prey and eat almost all of it, eventually sucking out the liquefied contents of their prey’s body. The Garden Spiders is not aggressive and they are not poisonous to humans.
That’s boils down to, spiders are poisonous however not to humans who are too large. I’m only calling you out on this because of the irony in your post.
Discovered gardening was this very large and in charge garden spider who has been named charlett. Deathly afraid i decided to let her live outside instead of killing her. Every day she moves her web for better bug catching. At the present she is now over our front door entry but everyone is too scared to move and relocate her so we will leave her and let her do her thing and hope and prey when winter comes she does not move into the house!
Hi, glad i found this site! Just wanted to say, i have a Garden Spider in the back of my truck bed for 3 months now and she hasn’t died or left the spot even though when i go to drive my truck she hides up inside the holes in the frame. every time i go to check on her, she has a new web made and many bugs wrapped up.i did have a question though, is it normal for these types to turn a pinkish color? ill have to find a way to put the picture on here (i don’t see anything to add pics here) but i thought it was pretty when she was that color now shes all black and yellow.
My wife is bad scared of spiders me not so much I don’t like them but they are an important part of life and insect control I found a Argiope in my laundry room and killed it before i had the chance to look it up , from this point on i will release them in the yard we live in the country and that is why it was in the house i am sure. thanks to this web site I now know what kind of spider this is and i will not kill them any more.
Not all spiders are poisonous. This is actually a factual statement. However, most non-poisonous spiders are actually venomous.
See the difference between a poisonous spider and a venomous spider is, well, if the bite. If the bite, or rather the liquid that is secreted during the bite, is poisonous then it does not matter how it enters the body, it will harm you. However, the majority of spiders you would encounter (this includes snakes too!) are not poisonous but venomous. The venom would do nothing to you if it were to be ingested into the body or even dropped on the skin. The way it harms you is by being injected into the blood (via the bite).
Also, not all spiders have venom (or poison!) for that matter. The Uloboridae family of spiders are completely venomless.
I live in fayetteville, North Carolina and I noticed these Argiope spiders in my front yard about 2 months ago. I freaked out simply because they were extremely large. One of them which I think is is male has been on my son’s window for 2 months.
He moves and comes back every so often but seems very settled where he is. Total that I have found and counted there are a total of about 8 in my front alone. 2 of them are females because I can see that they are going to have babies very soon. I trim my weeds and cut my grass and it does not seem to bother them at all.
They are very beautiful and their webs change daily and just keep getting larger. I can say that the 2 that are near my front entry have controlled the bug problem because here where I live in this heat that we get we have horrible bugs, but I haven’t had a problem this summer. I just hope that they stick around for the long haul.
this site is good now i know what n were there like this is good for me cos i caught 1 yesterday and a baby European to luckily the have not seen each over yet and keeping there distance so but if i could have some info on the big 1 to find out if s/he will eat the baby thank you
adam
We have a garden spider, an Argiope, on the side of our house. Huge but pretty. Today we saw her with prey wrapped in her web and she was like beating they prey against the house really hard. We walked away and came back 5 minutes later to find her still doing it. This puzzled me. I can’t find out why she might be doing it, but it really looked like she was knocking it unconscious. Anyone ever seen this?
I noticed this beautiful Yellow Garden Spider Aug 2011 in my back yard. It web is huge, probably 3 or 4 feet and that is not including the areas for attachment for the web. I was concerned but happy to read that it is not poisonous, nor is it aggressive… As I have a Labrador Retreiver and was worried about him. The spider is a beauty and I noticed the zig zagging in it’s huge web. 2 weeks ago I had a shock in finding a small scorpion alive on my kitchen floor that I must have brought in from the garage when I brought in some items for painting the night before – I had trimmed some bushes and pulled weeds and left the debris in a trash can without putting a lid on it… Lesson learned! I had to figure out how to capture or kill the scorpion without getting the tail sting – so I scooped it up into a bottle and placed the lid on it. It was interesting to watch it for a while before setting it free in the woods later. Back to the spider – it is gorgeous in color but forbidding in size…but they eat Mosquitos so therefor they are OK in my book and ours can stay as long as she chooses! Gil in Orlando FL – August 2011
I have had an arpeggio garden spider outside my kitchen window for weeks, wrapping every bug it traps in its zigzag web. Today I saw it had a grasshopper under it…poor grasshopper. Everyone says to kill it, but it isn’t bothering anyone and it’s getting rid of a lot of pest chiggers, etc.
What a great and beautiful creature. I have had several garden spiders at different stages out in the yard in bushy areas. I am in GA and have not been here a year yet and the critters are unbelievable. One is in the bushes along the front porch and he is not real big yet. Yesterday I discovered a giant garden spider (at least 2 in long and probably more), and it is outside the breeze way and one living room window, and he has kept me very entertained. I see him wrap up what ever goes into his web and he wraps it up and after a short time it quits struggling and the garden spider goes through the process of eating his meal. In my experience they are very calm spiders and will not bother you. I can tell you that I will not be doing any yard work in that area because if one got on me I think I would die!!! I just had a huge brown widow in the house and it took forever for me to get to where I was close enough and my arm wrapped well so I could kill it. I CANNOT catch a spider that big and release it my fear is too great!!
Monique – There is a HUGE spider on my porch that look almost as if it had a protective shell. It was black and yellow striped, and spun a web that looked like a corset. Does that sound similar? Are these poisonous? Help!
Also: the idea that the “daddy long legs” spiders are very poisonous despite having fangs too short to pierce human skin, is actually a myth. Daddy long legs are venomous, but only to small insects, and their fangs are indeed long enough to pierce skin, they just almost never bite humans. If you are bit by a daddy long legs: it is a slight tingle-burning sensation that is very temporary and goes away after a few seconds. Hope that helps clarify that up.
Spiders creep people out and can be scary, but the vast majority of the time they keep away from direct contact with people, and very few are actually dangerous enough that a bite will cause serious damage. Granted SOME spiders are very dangerous, (like black widows and the brown recluse) but as far as common garden spiders go: leave them alone and they will leave you alone because their venom is not harmful to humans and they eat many pesky bugs. Most will only bite you when they are cornered and you continue to advance on them when they have nowhere to run, or are already on your skin and feel threatened. They will not go after you or try to attack you so you really have nothing to be scared of.
However black widows and brown recluse spiders are poisonous and are potential dangers, so in these cases, if they are positioned somewhere you attend to often, it won’t be totally cruel to dispose of them with the bottom of your boot. I say: catch bugs to feed to the spiders if you want to help them out, sit back and just observe them if you find it interesting, but unless you’re definitely sure the spider is very poisonous and dangerous and its location poses a risk to yourself, leave them alone because they are beneficial! So do NOT kill garden spiders! That’s just my opinion…
I have a huge garden spider — the female, yellow and green one with the zig-zag web — in my backyard. Will it hurt my dogs? I don’t know how to remove it and get it out of here. It is freaking me out! Suggestions?
Thanks,
Monique
I tend to agree with Chris……. I have tons of spiders where I live, Garden, Brown Spiders, Jumpers, Wolf and Celler Spiders and I can honestly say, The Bugs Are Still Rampet!!!! The insect pop here has not changed and gets worse…….
There’s a comment that I’ve seen in many of the spider descriptions here that bothers me a bit. In the case of the garden spider on this page and in many others, the comment is made that the spider is not poisonous. This is FALSE. ALL SPIDERS ARE POISONOUS.
Not all spiders are dangerous to humans – some are even fairly tame and can make good pets – but every single one of them is poisonous. It’s just that many of them do not have a toxin that can do significant harm to a human, or like the daddy long legs spider they have a powerful toxin but their fangs are not long enough to penetrate human skin.
Saying that a particular spider is not poisonous is very misleading. The spider might not be dangerous, but it’s still poisonous. They all are.
i think garden spiders are very pretty and when i see them i don’t kill them i just let them go and watch them grow every year.
Garden spiders are harmless. They’re not pests.
What is the point of the black and yellow garden spider.You can find these any where not jest the garden. You can find them on your house, your garage, and your vehicles.
What is wrong with you people these spiders are dangerous don’t bring theme into your home kill them, or call someone to kill them before they kill you!
I’ve got 2 spider species on my balcony. One is a tan color with a very pronounced abdomen. It’s not a recluse-these guys tend to tuck up their legs and I haven’t gotten a good look at the webs. They seem a little haphazard. They’re small, about half an inch at the biggest, legs and all, but most are smaller than that, very dainty creatures, but I still don’t know what they are. All I’ve been able to see is that they are definitely not Recluses.
There’s a new resident I call “big fat nasty” (which, in hindsight, wasn’t very nice, as it is actually quite a beautiful spider. Probably half an inch with a big body, something like an over sized jumping spider in movement and behavior. Some kind of orb weaver. brown body with light stripes. It tends to sit sort of tucked in until I open the door and it runs to the far corner of its web. Alabama. Any ideas?
I’m particularly concerned about the smaller ones.
Hey I’m from Colorado and I found this 1/2 inch spider with 4 long legs in the front and 4 short legs in the back. I need to know what this is so we don’t have any trouble.
these things ARE BIG i didn’t know that we even had that big of spiders.
these spiders are pretty but can be dangerous
Hey Yall!!!! How’re you guys doing? This may seem weird, but I am a young girl, and I LOVE spiders. I mean, whenever my mom,( arachnaphobe), tries to kill a garden spider, i almost always try to stop her. We have these spiders grow in our sunflowers!! aint she a beaut? This is a little off-topic, but yall r talkin about some HUGE spiders, and Ive seen a moth bigger than my head. And i hav a big head. Ive also been bitten by whatever kind of spider (presumably), and my shin swelled up. But it healed up with some ice. So, thats all for now! BYE!!
When I lived in northern California, in the wine country, I often came across a fairly large spider maybe the diameter of a quarter, legs and all) that was colored a very dark purple-brown monotone. It was the same shape as a black widow with a large round abdomen. It liked to be under things, like our woodpile and if disturbed it would run under cover again. I cannot find a picture of it anywhere. I have always assumed it to be an orb spinner because of it’s shape. Is it venomous? I gave it a healthy respect due to its size and kept my distance. Thanks.
Also, my husband is trying to find the name of a spider he once saw on his ceiling, a large milky white spider. With legs it was about the diameter of a teacup saucer, the body was the size of a half-dollar. He also said it was the fastest spider he ever saw, first it was in one spot, a second later it was somewhere else; it went so fast he didn’t even see it move and that was the scariest part aside from the size. He was in Pensacola, Florida at the time. Is this a native spider or did someone’s pet get loose? Do you know what it is?
Hey in response to the people with the three hole bites, I also recently noticed a strange bite on my leg with three puncture marks that had gotten swollen and red. I’m not sure at all what it was that bit me but it seems to be healing well. I opened the bite a little and used peroxide on it letting it bubble, drying it with a q-tip to get some of the puss out then repeated until the holes seemed to dry then put neosporen on it. This seemed to help. I have been bit before by a brown recluse which was serious and had to go to the hospital, this bite doesn’t seem to require that.
My garden spider had 2 egg sacks this summer, but I never saw a male do the spiders make the sacks even if they are not germinated and should I bring them in for the winter?
I have a garden spider but I didn’t know it was a female?
I had gotten her about a month and a half ago or longer but she is in a cage in my room.
now she just made an egg sack about two, three days ago. But there is only one other spider in there and that’s a jumping spider. Is it possible that, that jumping spider got her pregnant?
and plus how long does it take for that eggs to hatch?
this website is very interesting I would like to know more about my spider.
I had a garden spider,now we have three egg sacs can we transplant them? Where do you put them for the winter? I live in the north part of Arkansas.
I HAVE BEEN GIFTED WITH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN SPIDER. I’VE ENJOYED HER ALL SUMMER. I’VE EVEN HELPED HER HAVE AN EXCITING MENU! I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE NATURAL PROCESS FOR THEIR HIBERNATION? I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF I MAY SEE HER AGAIN? I LIVE IN COLORADO AND WHERE I LIVE IT RARELY GET’S BELOW 30 DEGREES. ALSO LET ME KNOW IF I CAN HELP IN HER PROCESS? THANK YOU, FROM A PATHETIC GARDEN SPIDER LOVER! I’M JJ
yes for the protection of you plants you need to spray them at least once a month, these spiders could be laying eggs on them or even in them.
you need to find that spider and kill it and you also should damage the egg. you can’t tell for sure if the spider is deadly or not.
does the common garden spider have a bad bite
Having grown up in Buffalo, and now living just north of San Francisco, I am with Connor – these spiders are everywhere and my bug population isn’t showing any decrease!! Their webs cross from the roof down to our deck, from tree to tree in our front yard, yesterday from tree to my car door handle. My two boys are rather freaked out as this year they are especially prevalent around our house. I have taken to getting rid of any webs that cross paths, stairs or are on the deck; anything in the trees is welcome to stay. My question is, are there more of them this year, and if so, why???
There is really only one spider in NY known to be mildly venomous to humans and it is the yellow-sac spider. It is very rare for a garden spider to bite humans they are much more likely to hide– and the beautiful black and yello orb spider you are killing needlessly — is not only non-venomous but is probably riding your house and garden of hundreds of pests that are far more unhealthy and dangerous to you such as mosquitos, flies and ticks. You should rethink your attitude toward these creature and just let them be.
I have these absolutely massive spiders that have infested my shabby chic garage in my backyard. I call them tree spiders because of the large trees in my yard, but I’m sure they are a variety of garden spider. Living in Buffalo, NY, I’m sure they are not deadly venomous (i have mildly arachnophobia) but I gotta say they all get smashed by my boot if i see them. I know some of you people think they are cute but it’s not cute when these things are like 3 inches in length and hairy. Maybe they’re a type of wolf spider but any spider is a dead spider in my book. I have a 2 year old daughter that runs around and pokes into everything.
I’m sure a bite from one of these large spiders wouldn’t be a non-issue on a small child. I’m going to post pics – maybe someone can identify them. A guy I worked with got bit on the arm by a large spider like this and ended up in the hospital for 3 days. Sorry people spiders aren’t cute, and they don’t make any noticeable contribution to keeping the insect population in check. Useless vile creatures that should be eradicated from the planet lol. I’m sure life as we know it wouldn’t be altered massively if there were no spiders – although I’m sure some of you would predict the impending Apocalypse.
I had about 8 of these in the garden and I killed them. 😀
We have a lot of these garden spiders at a hunting ranch we have. They always find a way to build they’re web right over our roads. I hate thee things kill em every chance I get
I went to a place in weird NJ called the devil tree. Supposed to be haunted creepy things happen if you defile the tree. And right on its front was a giant web with one of these guys in it. So we all assumed it was something bizarre and dangerous. From what I’m reading it doesn’t sound so?
I have just recently discovered this spider in my window seal…..it has a egg, but I was scared because the spider is gone and the egg is still there!!
I was lucky enough to have a black and yellow garden spider outside my garage door. It was only there for a few days and when I noticed it missing it had left a small egg case. I carefully placed the egg case inside a glass jar with small holes punched in the lid and brought it inside. It’s sitting on my bookcase where I can observe it. Is it likely to hatch and when will it hatch if it does? I plan on releasing the baby spiders if they will make it. Where should I open the jar to release them? Will they hatch before Spring? I live in the mountains of East Tennessee.
we have garden spiders on our tomato plants, will they hurt the tomato plants?
garden spiders galore in our yard. I see them in more ways than one!
I saw this spider as big as a tea cup and wounder if it is poisonous because I don’t want a maybe poisonous spider of that size! It had a black body with some white on its head and a yellow marking on its abdomen. is legs have some peachy color and some black on it.
I have 2 kids one’s 2 the other is 4, and there grandma has a garden spider It’s the yellow & black one, and it’s very big.. Should I worry about it biting my babies? She always has them and she lives in the country and just let’s them run around outside by themselves, Please help. Thanks
Hey about a year ago my family found a huge spider near our front deck. it had a big two story web and it was sitting in the upside-down four-legged position that u usually see garden spiders in but one day (and it was yellow before this if I remember correctly) i walked out and the spider was slightly bigger and had the same color pattern except instead of yellow it was red. To this day I have no idea what it was, If anyone has any info on red garden spiders i would be happy to know.
I have a black and yellow garden spider in my back and she is pretty, she ate a grasshopper.
I live up on a forest covered mountain with lots of lakes an swamps and streams and rivers, dose anyone know what kind of spiders like this environment? I live in part of the carnivorous forest, it is a northern location with long winters that are hard and cold, and short but humid and hot summers (Nova Scotia Canada if someone knows the area) Besides the many spiders i see it seems to be infested with daddy long legs (and ones that look like them but with a fuzzy looking red body very round and ones with longer bodies) Today was my first encounter with this huge black and yellow garden spider, unfortunately my boy friend shot it a few times with a staple gun, i grieve for the spider, when they are outside that’s fine by me they just trying to survive but they do make my skin crawl…a lot actually :S
Hi GREAT SITE!! I have had Mrs. Spider (Argiope) on the side of my pool most of the summer. I now know (from your site) that it is a she. anyway to day I noticed that she is hiding on the pool filter and another smaller female has taken up residence on her web! Im just wondering if this is normal behavior? Does this just mean that she is ready to lay her eggs? or did the other female beat her up? also there is no sign of the male now. Could you send a pic of the male if you have one? Oh just found where another of our spiders has also been replaced by a smaller female.
we have over 20 of these spiders around our yard. i have always collected their egg sacs if they were in a dangerous place and relocated them.
My eight year old daughter has one of these spiders inside her bug habitat. Well she now has a sac. I don’t want to hurt it in any way. If we keep it in the cage till spring, will we have little spiders faster because of the temperature in my house over the winter.
My earliest encounters with spiders were with Garden Spiders, but I’ve only seen one in the past 20 years here in Michigan. Any ideas?
Where I live we have to about 20+ garden spiders every year. More than five of them like to camp out on one side of the house, the rest are scattered throughout the yard. I admit they are very pretty to look at and are interesting creatures. But still, spiders scare me. Its just a mild fear I inherited from my mother. When I was younger I used to throw grasshoppers into their webs to watch them scramble to them and roll them up. I do have a question though.
I was lying in my floor watching TV when I felt a tickling on my arm. I snatched it up and threw it aside thinking it was a wad of hair from my dog or something I looked and saw something white and fluttering. For a moment I was sad thinking I crushed a moth, then I took a closer look and saw it was a pure white spider with thin dainty legs, already dead. Oh yeah it scared me but intrigued me. I’ve never seen a white spider before. So does anyone know what kind of spider it was? (Just for everyone to know I don’t hate spiders, I know what they do for the environment, we just have an unspoken agreement. If they’re in my room, they stay on their side and I’ll stay on mine. We’ll be fine.)
does these black and yellow spiders live in tiffin ohio?
Greg,
A friend of mine got a bite from a spider that he came across in his hay barn, it was a small brown spider, he thought nothing of it and carried on with his day.
A couple of hours later, on returning to the house he showed the bite on his thigh,to his wife, as it was starting to be rather painful. By the next morning his leg was swollen, and extremely painful, so his wife took him to emergency room. After question and answers it was determined that he had been bitten by a brown recluse spider, whose venom is deadly to humans. As it turned out he almost lost his leg and life. The anti-venom of the brown recluse spider is rare and he did not get it for 4 days, as a result he could not walk or work for over 3 months !!
Very beautiful creatures indeed. Not enough credit. Far too much criticism. I will gather, and send some great pics of my favorite orb weaver. Hopefully you can tell me what exact species it is.
I found an Orb spider laying on it’s back once. it turned out it was alive, just resting
i was bit at school by a massive garden spider and soon after my hands swelled up and i still get swollen hands when bit by spiders
this pg is the best thing that i had ever seen before i would want to learn more send more my email tylermuehe@hot mail tyler12
HI. Enjoy your Web Site! I have some questions. My captive adult
female ( HOGNA GENUS ) WOLF SPIDER, “SUBURBAN” just rolled
an egg 2-14-2010. I’d like to keep a couple females and maybe
some males–all separately. Plus, I’d like to release the other
spiderlings somewhere safe, for them.
My QUESTIONS: How long before the SPIDERLINGS hatch?
How long do the ride on their Mother’s back?
When can they begin hunting for prey, after they deboard her?
And will “SUBURBAN” continue living long after the SPIDERLINGS
have scattered? THANK YOU.
i like the garden spider, i’m doing a project on it. do all spiders have poison?
Could I get an answer to # 43? I have the same situation on my porch. Will she die are live through the winter? What will happen to her if I put her an a safe place inside my house? Should I leave her sack outside are bring it in too. I have a glass fish bowl with a screen top that she can stay in through the winter.
i was cleaning out my shed (witch is located in my back yard) and came across a couple of black spiders about the size of a quarter maybe a little bigger.i live in new york city and dont know much about spiders,i want to know what kind of spider it is because the kids play back there and i dont want them to get hurt.pls help..it was black about the size of a quarter,did not jump it just walked nice and slow,and i found it behind/under a piece of wood in my shed that has not been cleaned in about ten years..thanks
I think this is a garden spider but really unsure so if you can tell me what it is and how to get red of it in a safe way for myself and the spider I would appreciate it.
Thank you.
Amy
I have the European Garden Spider that built a web several weeks ago while the weather was nice – now the temps are dropping. I wouldn’t want her in the house but I’m wondering what will happen to her. I’m in Montana and it’s getting into the 30’s at night now. Does she hibernate or is she just going to die? She’s my motorhome, between the top of the window and the mirror, – should I try to relocate her to a bush out front or just leave her alone for now? Thanks
my mom has caught a garden spider i was just wondering if it is deadly?
hey i just caught myself a pretty big garden spider, but… its two front legs are extremely short but it looks almost exactly like the ones in the pictures except for its legs and it’s body is wider. can you tell me if this is normal and if it’s still safe to raise this thing
Sincerely,
Derreck the young spider lover XD
Eric from Tennessee,
The reason that you haven’t seen a garden spider lately is because they’re all living in my yard or my neighbor’s yards – in Middle Tennessee. We love them!
I can’t believe anyone would want to kill a spider in their yard or gardens, as mentioned above. Most of them are the good guys that benefit your garden. People who spray poison to kill the things they don’t like about nature are killing nature, herself. Outdoor plants like boxwood’s, trees and gardens are homes to insects, spiders, birds and other beneficial creatures. If someone kills all the beneficials, they’ll be run over by the not so beneficial creatures.
Hi we have a beautiful yellow and black garden spider in our box bush in front of front porch and my 4 year old daughter and i feed it grass hoppers everyday but she keeps asking if she can hold it but i want to make sure it is safe anyone know? i know there not poisonous to humans but wanna make sure thanks.
Henry (daddy) and Faryn
Found large web with Garden Spider attached to frame of our back porch – never saw one before here in Southern Illinois. Just a note – spouse was bitten by a small spider in the house a few years ago. At the time the bite was painful. Bite became very infected and went to ER for treatment and then to family physician. It would not have healed on its own.
Tammie- I have noticed the same thing this year. I live in Alabama and I kept telling people…wow… this summer there seems to be a lot more spiders around and a lot bigger spiders. they seem to be everywhere on my property. We have lived in the country (same land) for 22 years and I have never seen anywhere near the amount of big spiders as this summer. Maybe we did not have a cold enough winter to thin them out. I don’t know. They are beautiful though…once you get used to how big they can get and realize they are not dangerous!
I live in the city, Atlanta Ga, actually right by the airport and usually once a year my mother and I will find a beautiful garden spider webbed in the front yard usually in the same place if not very similar. I didn’t think anything odd until this year because for years, we’ve actually had two ponds and variety of different bushes in the yard that grew up well, this year we have managed to have at least fourteen garden spiders all the same just in different sizes all through the yard. I find them to be actually amazing but is it normal for so many in the same yard, and all of a sudden this year?? Love the web site, gave me a lot of insight I didn’t know. Thanks
wow. okay. te person who asked about the shiny black spider with the red spot. No, it’s not a GARDEN spirder. It is a Black Widow. Back off of it. AND PEOPLE, quit catching them for your enjoyment. They didn’t spend the last month mating so you can step in. If they’re sluggish, they’re coming to the end of their journey, do not step in. do not move their sacs. Enjoy them but leave them alone. My own kids wouldn’t do that.
I found a Spider web in the corner of my fence it was huge, the spider was SO LARGE I have never seen a spider this bis most of the web was a real silkey white with a zipper in the middle. The egg sac was about the size of a half dollar and the web around that was gold the spider was black and had a pattern of 4 yellow dot’s on it the leg’s where all black. I have no idea what kind it was the pattern is different from the garden spider and the color was a little different. PLEASE HELP!!
We have three Yellow garden spiders on our foundation. We are having part of the foundation rebuilt and after it is complete we have to paint. I need to relocate the spiders and eggs sacs, do you just scoop them up (with or withou the web?) and where is safe to set them free. I thought about my parents house. They would love watching them. It is heavily wooded, but my mother is an avid bird lover…will the birds eat them??
I am 13 weeks pregnant and my husband thinks I am crazy. But our 3 year old still talks about our first spider last year, “Charlotte” and when she died she went to our great God. So, these are like pets…What can I do? I refuse to kill them…thankfully my husband agrees. Please help.
IS this a garden spider? I live in Texas, it’s length is approx 10 inches. Please help identify.
Thanks
Sometimes if you don’t notice the garden spider and you walk by, they will shake back and forth on their web because they feel threatened. Or they just drop down. These spiders have the ability to change sides of their web in an instant without walking around the edge. Pretty to look at but would not like one on me.
A few weeks my dog, courage, and i were playing in the backyard when i noticed 2 verrryyyy big nasy spiders. i described them to my father, but he wasnt a help cuz he couldnt remember the type of spider. i was really curious so i asked my step dad and he told me it was a garden spider!!! I looked it up to double check and i fouund out it was an argiope garden spider!!! A few dayz ago i found a brown egg sack thing and did some research on it. while i went to let courage in, i saw ANOTHER egg sack. does that mean there are 4 spiders or only 2 that have mated twice?
Hi. love your WEB site on SPIDERS–NO PUN INTENDED! I’ve kept
many spiders as pets, or as welcome guests in my yard. Years ago,
found a BEAUTIFUL ARGIOPE, kept her in a big jar to study her. Soon
released her in some woods in a large park. Currently have what I
believe are two female recluses, in separate jars, which I feed bugs
to. I don’t kill them, nor do I let them go, to bite somebody. Plus I am friend to many common, harmless cob-web house spiders of the
same species. I appreciate SPIDERS. I respect them. And also
appreciate the people here, that likewise have a fastination and an
appreciation for them! GOOD SITE! THANK YOU!!! Sue Johnson
Me and my friends LOVE to catch spiders and we’ve noticed that there are lots of garden spiders around my house. I love examining the colours on their backs! We catch Daddy Long-legs and throw them into their webs and watch them wrap them up! I am terribly afraid of spiders but I enjoy facing my fears! This site is awsome and I am not so afraid to catch and/or observe these spiders now that I know they are not poisonous to humans! Daisy (The brown and black garden spider I caught) is amaizing!
Thanks a bunch!
Sincerly, Katie G
we have alot of garden spiders outside my house in the summer and they are realy creepy! What should i do if i get bit by one?
i have a spider and its a garden spider and i dont know why but there is a baby spider behind and the garden spider is a female and i dont know what to do.
Hi, I was bitten by a spider and a mosquito on my left foot about 3 days ago,my foot swelled and started to itch, it feels likes it on fire it burns so painfully as well as the itch. It hurts to apply pressure on it so walking is difficult. I have one bit on top of the arch of my foot which at the time it itched but no longer 3 inches above the heel of my foot is another bit that I also that was a mosquito bit,now not so sure it looks like 2 tiny whole this was also itchy,also turned a little purple and outlined in red spreading an 1/2 inch around the puncher wound. I also have 3 wholes just to the side of my ankle,this is were the swelling started and spread over the foot as well as the pressure and pain has and also itches. unable to place in shoes even a sandal. very sensitive,swelling,itchy,painful,can feel pressure building up,as well as a senses of numbness to it,un able to move foot like usable.
what should I do? besides putting on calamine lotion on which only helps with the itch to a point. I also have been taking allergies pills to see if that will help and advil,as well as a ice pack and keeping it elevated.
my sister ,brother and I were walking around as we noticed a lil bug sorta like a long roach we found in the house. We kept it for a day and put in a lil hotel empty shampoo bottle and put a little toilet paper in the bottle to because the bug liked it. We named it BUGGY we were sad to let it go but we had to so BUGGY could live.I will never forget it BIG black eyes!!
Jessica,Rob,TIA
First of all..nice site. I have a flower bed in from of my back deck and I have at least 12, yes 12 garden spiders out there. They have all built separate webs on each flower. I can add some pics if you want …It is crazy. I have left them alone but they multiplied like crazy and now there is one by my sliding glass door. Should I be concerned? I dont want to just go out there and kill them but I dont want them coming in the house. Advise please…..
Thanks
Eric
i live in Tennessee and i have not seen garden spiders for 2 years ,
can you tell me why i have not
I have grown attached to a garden spider that sits outside the top of my slider next to my outside light . She has been able to catch alot of bugs, and is real fat. However I worry about the freezing temps . Can I bring her in or is it to late . She seems to be slugish . Lisa
Hi,
First, let me say in response to the gibberish posted above.
That is a version of the old Nigerian scammers, I can tell by
the way they write . Wow, guess they are everywhere.
I have a large brown spider outside my window, and I think
it’s just a common garden spider. It’s large compared to most
other ones around here , so I did some research to find out
if it was poisonous or not, and it isn’t. Thanks for the great
site about spiders.
Here’s our spider. she’s been living on our window for about a month now…i think she’s a garden orb..so we named her Orbie.
Her sack appeared a week ago, but i transplanted it to the wooded area so my husband would stop freaking out over it(he hates spiders).
I have a rather large Argiope Garden Spider on my front porch. It feeds with the assistance of my porch light. I leave it on sometimes to attract bugs for it (Don’t worry. It’s an energy efficient bulb).
I like how it’s body changes shape when it has had a lot to eat. One morning I noticed it had caught a large locust, and took all day to eat it. By the next morning, it was twice as large and was a completely different looking spider.
Does the amount of food eaten determine the amount of offspring? I ask because it now has three eggsacks stashed away under a ledge beside it’s web.
I’ve always liked these kind of spiders because they’re “friendly” spiders, have “showy” webs, and grow quite large. Anyway, that’s my two cents.
If anyone see’s a yellow-black-silver spider i just want to let you
know this is a female jumping spider. i have never been bit by one and i know there not poisonus.
Pictures of a garden spider.
just wanted to send in a pic of a garden spider thats just off my front porch….I live in the country in Georgia and my house is surrounded by acres of wooded area, I have so far found over 10 garden spiders just around my house, I really dont like spiders in general, but the garden spider is a beautiful species….just wanted to share the picture!!!
Hi, I live in Central New York and have found what I THINK is a garden spider outside my window, but I’m not sure. It is about 2 inches in length including legs, is mostly a brownish gold color with yellow and brown striped legs. It has an orb web that is hanging close to some grape vine outside my window. I’m just curious if anyone knows if this is definitely a house spider? It doesn’t really look like any of the pictures I have seen, but it is similar to some. Any help would be appreciated.
i found two different nests of these orb weavers in my backyard in the spring,and have discovered many of them now in the fall,and they are huge,i have one female whose body is the size of a quarter almost
i need help finding out what kind of spider was in my bed i lve in up state new york and i have a child very allergic to bug bites. the spider is about the diameter of a knickle ,black and furry looking with a white line down the body and at the very end of the body a white dot. please if some one can give me any idea
terry
I found a big one of these in my boxwood shrubs in front of my house. I was researching the web. It really sticks out. I’m going to spray my shrubs to kill them because I have a spider problem to begin with too many.
I got bit by a spider in my backyard last night on my upper right thigh…
I took some benadryl like I usually do if I get a spider bite, and I’m usually fine a few hours later but today I’m still feeling itchy…and like the venom is crawling through my body. At first I felt numb in my legs and in my arms..tingling. I’m still itchy, feeling crawly and sick to my stomach. I have a small round bite with a bump in the center of it and I live in central Illinois. Please tell me if this is serious enough to seek medical attention
Better pics of a garden spyder. I Found your website to find out what kind it was and…….. found it
Thanks, Kent
my neighbor has a black and yellow spider on her porch and i was just wonderin if it was poisenouis
I love your Site … It is the BEST SITE i have Found on SPIDERS
This SITE is the TOP SITE on SPIDERS i have EVER FOUND …
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 ..
y do these garden spiders shake thier webs??
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
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.
garden spiders are very cool
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..
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
When I was about 10 years old, I was climbing a large oak tree in Florida, chasing a baby stork. At some time during the chase, a large spider bit me on my left wrist. The fang marks were almost the diameter of pencil lead and spaced more than 1/8 inch apart. I assumed it was a garden spider as they are very common in that part of Florida (Auburndale). The bite was directly on a large vein on the inside of the wrist.
When I finished chasing the stork and came down from the tree, I noticed the bite and a large welt on my wrist, extending from my hand to my elbow, on the inside. And it was beginning to itch.
By the time I was home, a large block away, I was itching all over my body and turning red. My mother, a nurse, tried calamine lotion, which did not help, of course. She described my behavior as acting like a mad dog. EVERYTHING itched!
She took me to the emergency room, but even before we got there the itching was beginning to lessen. After a shot of epinephrine I vomited, but felt much better and went home.
I never saw the spider, but based on the bite it had to be large, like the Orb Weavers and Garden Spiders that were so common there. I don’t know much about centipede bites, but I don’t believe it was one of those.
BTW, my cousin and I had caught the stork once, let him go, and were chasing him again when I was bitten. But as I approached the stork that second time, he turned his head sideways and struk me in the face with his sharp bill, grabbing my nose by the bridge and giving me a little shake! Imagine if he had kept his bill open and struck my eyes instead of grabbing the bridge of my nose. I have a lot more respect for wildlife now, and for spiders!
Ted
In the last week Ive found 2 red spiders in my basement,all red except what looks like abrown abdomen,would appreciate the help.
I noticed 3 small holes…talking tiny lil holes on my right arm about 2 days ago. Over the course of the next 2 nights the spot where I was bitten started itching..mostly during sleep.Then Today I noticed that I have 4 mosquito looking bites. The 2 on my arm and 1 under my eye are a little bigger than a dime. When you feel or push on them they feel hard. One is where I was bitten…one below the first area…one on the back of my hand and the other under my left eye. I assume it’s a spider bite. Should I go to the docotor or is there some over the counter medicine I can take?
Thanks
I have a mark right on my chest…it has what looks to be a puncture mark and it has a round white marking around it. Could this be a bite or am I being paranoid?? thanks so much!
Melissa
We live in Florida, and this year found a beautiful garden spider off our fence. I watched her build her web, and she was a good eater until she mated. She seemed not to be feeding, except I think she ate her mate. Haven’t seen any babies.
It’s about a week since she mated, and today a medium-size shiny black wasp was harrassing the spider, and was stung. She is hanging on to her web by one leg. Is this normal behavior for wasps?
We also have another garden spider with a mate. We’re just hoping this one makes it.
I’ve spent all summer enjoying these ladies, and hope they keep visiting.
Can you define the wasp? Is that “normal” for them to kill like that?
Thank you
Jo
I have a garden spider that built a web several weeks ago while the weather was nice – now the temps are dropping. I wouldn’t want her in the house but I’m wondering what will happen to her. I’m in Ohio and it’s getting into the 40’s at night now. Does she hibernate or is she just going to die? She’s on a patio with no bushes – just cement – should I try to relocate her to a bush out front or just leave her alone for now? Thanks
Jessica,
Is the body shiny and round?
I found an orb weaver that is similar in size and web structure to the common araenia genus. This species has a definite reddish cast to it’s coloration, however, rather than the common brown coloration. Is anyone familiar with this species?
Can anyone tell me what kind of spider is all black with white spots on just the body, could it be a garden spider?
We have a small dog (peek-a-poo) who is about 14 years old. While walking her, I noticed she immediately jerked her paw back. She then began limping and was in severe pain. We were out of town and had to take her to a local vet. He thinks she was bitten by a crab back spider, which he said were common in the NC foothills.
After a week of prednisone and antibiotics, she recoverd. This was actually the 2nd time this happened in the same location. The 1st time she had to be rushed to an emergency vet as she was swelling quickly and again in severe pain. Thought other pet lovers would like to know about this. She was being walked in very short grass in the daylight!
i have a yellow and black spider approx. 3 inches long. its web is about two feet in diameter with a zig zag pattern in the middle of the web. i was wondering what type of spider this is and is it poisonous? it sort of resembles a garden spider. it eats anything even a dragonfly. it also kills the male variety.
My mom has spiders in her house. How can I tell what kind of spider it is? It seems to be the same kind but I am not a spider expert. I am deathly afraid that it is a brown recluse spider and not a garden spider. I don’t want to run the risk of any of us getting bitten. Please help!
I have a purple and pinkish bite, But…. I dont know if its a spider bite. It has three holes in it and it is not causing and pain I have no Idea wat it is.
I got bit by something in my backyard and it is very possible it is a spider bite. We have had multiple spiders this summer. I have never had anything like this before. I didn’t realize that I had a bite until I noticed a red area below my big toe and it itches all the time. I have had it for about a week and I have been putting cortisone creme on it but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else had this type of bite and might know what it is?
We caught a female european garden spider and now feed it all the insects we can catch. What should we put in to make a good habbitat? The last garden spider we caught was male and we kept him for about a year.
I have three puncture marks on the top of my foot, it is not ichy but painful when I walk, no other symptoms, a little swelling at first but now it is read around the puncture marks. I was in my garden with sandels on….will not do that again. This was four days ago. Would appreciate any comments.
Yes, the male Argiope is a lot smaller than the female, and mostly brown rather than black/white/yellow.
I think I have been bit by a spider but I am not sure . Please send me a list of symptoms of the most common symtoms of spider bites
sincerly,
Barbra
Note: Here is a line of gibberish if I ever heard one. Whoever posted this is trying to sell you on type of antidote and trying do it by inducing fear. It is posted just to demonstrate how people can take advantage of a situation such as this. Best advice, see a doctor and don’t be afraid to contact the doctor with any questions at all!
Here is the gibberish posted below:
Miss louis, you are extremely lucky is not likely this incident has happend, i must advise you to take medical assistance immediatley as their is small chance the poison of this spider has developed potent liquid into your bloodstream may take several hours. As you have already mentioned are obvious swelling of the markings of this spider, i suggest is prominent swelling, it is now been researched at our university colorado, the findings proven at each individual arachnid species will inject an amount poison preferable to the opposing enemy as such “you are the threat” therefore it is clear this type species has made the incision precisely in causing instant death or immminent as may take possibly few week or more, with the poison actively working its way to the heart in the blood, once is fully circulated around the body, i am sorry miss louis but you are in grave danger; i insist you seek an antidote immediatley.
please will you give me your contact details and i will have an antidote sent to you at once.
**URGENCY**
——— End of Jibbersh ————————
Don’t panic, simply consult a doctor but do not fall for some antidote given by someone other than your doctor.
What kind of spiders live in new york? i think i got bit from one i have two little round holes. but not swelling or pain, so could that be a spider bit?
I have a black and yellow Argiope on my deck. I noticed a small brown spider close to her for the last few days. Is the brown spider the male version? Good article.
I have a black and white garden spider…what is the best thing to feed them and should I keep the habitat at a certain temperature…I caught her 4 days ago…this morning when I woke up, she had laid her eggs and of course put the sack around them…any more information would be very helpful…thank you…Shawn