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Spider Photos -  Silver Argiope

Here's some photos of Silver Argiopes (Argiope argentata).   This spider is one of nature's many pest control agents. Its appetite for insects results in its keeping many burgeoning insect populations in check. As a group, orb-weaving spiders consume many tonnes of insects every year. You can find silver argiopes among shrubbery, tall plants and flowers in meadows and gardens. They weave a distinctive zigzag pattern within their web - an easy way to identify the presence of this particular species. They are not considered dangerous to humans although like all spiders can bite.

SILVER ARGIOPES

3 July,  2008:
Hi, This guy is in my front yard, in North Miami, FL. Help? Thanks! Wendy

22 June,  2008:
I have these spiders that are in my front yard that Are huge and I have no idea what they are.. can you identify them?

HI GLEN, IT’S ME AGAIN!!!!! HERE THE SHOTS!!!!!!!! NOTE THE AMAZING NUMBERS OF SPIDERS!!!!! THE PHOTOS SPEAK BY THEMSELVES!!! IS AMAZING HOW ACTIVE THEY ALREADY ARE!!!!! THEY MAKE THE NET THAT YOU’LL SEE ALONE IN ONE SINGLE NIGHT!!!! IN THE OTHER HAND NOTE THAT THE SPIDER SAC IS IN PERFECT CONDITIONS!!!! IS NO BROKEN OR SOMETHING!!!! HOW OR WERE DID THEY CAME FROM???? THIS A BEAUTY AND AMAZING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!! TAKE A LOOK OF THE PICS AND SEND ME YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE!!!!!

23 September, 2007:
Hi Glen, I hope you’re ok and everything good in your lives! This is a VERY INTERESTING EPISODE in my Insects Collection or Diaries!!! JAJAJAJJ! The Little Giant Fishing Spider, The Agripole and the Gecko was very hungy... Is like murphies laws!!! When I don't have those pets, in my house I usually found sometimes cockroaches, little roaches or butterflies.. Now that I have those pets that need this food I CANT FOUND ANYTHING!!! Even in my backyard!! Jjajaja! Well, te fact is that this morning I was hunting some bugs to feed my pets and I just find a Kind of Black ANTS Really big that have a very big tooths and always open, when they close it suddenly, you can hear like a “CLICK”.... AMAZING!!!! 2 months ago I try to feed my pets with that and no one even get closer!!!! They know that this Ants species are dangerous!!!! Ajjajaj! Well..... The fact is that I found a nest of little black and yellow wasps (you’ll see it in the photos) It was a really small nest of wasps But it hve like 15 wasps. I get it in to a mayonnaise glass pot and after I got it I think: “GREAT!!!! I’M A GENIUS..... NOW HOW CAN I DISTRIBUTE THE WASPS IN TO THE 3 AQUARIUMS”????? Well.... I remember my Discovery and Animal planet programs jajajajaj and I remember that the FLY’S get sleep when they get cold! I see this also in a Magician Devilled Tricks!! I think that this could work with wasps!!!! In fact I put the pot in the freezer and in less than 2 minutes they sleep like babes!!!!
AMAZING! I distribute the wasps in the aquariums and Guess What????
The Gecko was so hungry that eat 2 of them but with much difficulty!!!! He is so small but make so many noises when they got it and smack his own head against the aquariums walls to help to trought it!!!! It have 3 mores but I think that the Gecko is already full or is waiting for the wasps get tired to eat it!!! The Argiope Spider... Instantly that I point the sleeps wasps in to the NET, instantly when the 4 wasps that I put carefully over the spider net, SHE the spider run like a thunder in to each one, make a sac around each wasps, and when she get all like a mummy involved in a sac she start to eat one by one!!!!!
SEE THE PHOTOS!!! It was amazing too!! While the Giant Fishing Spider go to one wasp when it was sleeping, check it in... And when the wasp awake the spider loose every interest in it!! I don't know if she is not hungry (she eat a little cockroach 2 days ago) or if that she knows that the wasp can be poisoned!! By the way, I note her (the spider) so nervous.... More than the usual.... I use to move her with a stick and she move to a medium velocity, but know, when I touch her with the stick, run away like crazy, jump and also get in to the water!!! Is this normal?? She can be in a kind of Change Skin time and cause of this is so nervous??? I don't think that it can be cause about food, because she eat more frequently than the others and she eat really big bugs that I found it every time!!! And a last question and Thanks for your always great answers.... The argiope as I told you some days before, make an egg sac, but the sac still there.... (you’ll note it at the background of this spider photo), I know that you told me that the sac could be there for many time, even for a year waiting for the perfect season to birth the baby spiders... But.... How can It doesn't screw?? I mean.. I note that the spider doesn't care about the sac and never is closer to bring it warm or some things... Liquid or I don't know.... This sac can be still full of live without any care of the spider??? Is amazing too!!!! Thanks guy and I hope that you enjoy the photos!!!! Well friends..... I hope that you are ok and take care of you!!!!Best regards and hope to hear about you soon...

13 September, 2007:
I send you others detailed photos of the AGRIPOLES and other that show how they live togheter very close without any problem and in the background you’ll can see the BIG YELLOW EGG SAC! My observation is that they eat some little, they eat a butterfly 2 weeks ago but the othetrs bugs that I put it inside to feed it they doesnt care! Also I note that the bigone, doesnt spend energy!! She doesnt move for days! Even you shake the acuarium or the bugs for food gate traped in the net! While the small one doesnt eat but is always in move! Is so nervous! Gustavo

2 September, 2007:
I send you others Interesting Photos about the new ones that I found today!
They loved to be climb upside down! And cause of this I get great shoots of the downside of the spiders, maybe this could help to YOU THE EXPERTS to determine wich one is male, female or if both are of a same sex!!!!! The smaller I cant take perfects shoots of the abdomen because she was more far from my zoom!!! But I hope this pics can help to identify it!! Gustavo

WHEN I ARRIVE TO HOME LIKE 6:00 PM I FOUND THAT THE BIG ONE MAKE LIKE A MASTER PIECE!!!! I’M NOT SURE IF IT IS A EGG SAC BUT IS LIKE AN SCULPTURE!!!!!!!!! NOTE THAT I DON'T FEED IT YET!!! I PUT A BUTTERLY IN THE AQUARIUM EARLY IN THE MORNING AND WHEN I ARRIVE TO BEACH IN THE AFTERNOON THE BUTTERFLY STILL FLYING IN THE AQUARIUM LIKE ANYTHING HAPPENS!!! SO I SUPPOSE THAT THE SAC IS NOT A FOOD SAC OR NOTHING LIKE THAT!!!

5 August, 2007:
Hi, I live in south Florida, Boynton Beach and I noticed this spider sitting on its orb web near my house. I think it identifies as an Argiope Lobata but I am forwarding the pictures for your collection. If you have time, would appreciate knowing if I was right. Thanks, Al

23 March, 2007:
Hello, I am fron Resistencia (Chaco), Argentina. This spider lives in my garden. I think it is Argiope ( argentata ?). Thank you

14 October, 2006:
Hi
I live in San Diego and have lots of these in the yard. They are very specific about what plant they hang out on and their egg case is a
rectangular pouch that is the same color as the plant they are on. They have approx. a 2 inch leg span. Thanks Jim
 

6 September, 2006:
Here is a interesting spider I found in between some bushes in my front yard in San Diego. I Identified it on your site as a Argiope argentata species, or a Silver argiope. A spectacular spider around 2 inches long. Thanks, great site.

23 August, 2006:
Hi Glen, Is this spider just a yellow and black garden spider? I've been trying to find a picture online that might match this one's body but haven't found any that have
the same "crown like" shape. Curios if it might be something else.
Thank you!
Sabrina

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