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November, 2004:
Here is a spider that was living on a fence post in my yard.
This is another garden spider living on our canna lillies
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November, 2004:
My friend found this in her backyard in San Diego, California.
Beautiful!
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Reply: Looks like its egg sac minus the eggs.
9 November, 2004:
Hi, I have a spider on my
house that looks interesting, and I've been searching for info to
help identify what this spider is doing. I came across your site,
and am hoping you might have an idea what is going on in the
picture. First the spider had a nice big web for a some weeks, and
just seemed to be happy sitting there catching bugs. This web was 2
feet from my back door, about 6 inches from my porch floodlight. A
couple of days ago we noticed the web is gone, but the spider is
sitting on some sort of flat oblong thing. Further down the wall are
drippings of some very yellow substance, which I assume came form
the spider or something he ate, because it was not there days ago,
and we have been careful to avoid getting near the web for fear of
disturbing him or running him off. I am attaching a couple of
pictures so that you can see the thing the spider is sitting on. It
is flat/thin, and oblong, about 2.5 - 3 inches long and about an
inch wide. Where the back end of the spider is sitting, the thing is
darker than the rest of it, which is mostly a dirty white color.
Yesterday we noticed he (or she - how can you tell?) had moved off
of it and was sitting just to the side of it. My first thought is
that it might be an egg sack, but it is so flat....and where did the
web go? We don't have a lot of experience with spiders - my toddler
is very frightened of any bugs & spiders, so we usually don't let
them stay, in order to keep the peace with the little one....but
this one is up high enough that my little one can't really even see
him.
Anything that you can tell me from looking at the pictures would be
helpful in answering the questions of my curious 11-year old science
buff!
Thanks! Teresa Glynn |
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October, 2004:
Dear Glen- It wouldn't be autumn in Austin, Texas without an
argiope somewhere in our yard. This one is especially lovely. Lisa
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October, 2004:
Just took this in our backyard. We live 40 miles East of San Fran.
Very interesting. We looked it up on your site and can't believe all
of the other photos people have sent. Is it poisonous? Nicole and
Jerry
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October, 2004:
Hi Glen- These are pictures of the argiope I found
attached to my back door in Maryland. It creeped me out until I read
about it on your website, and now I'm sort of fascinated by it.
Thanks for all the info...Cliff Hazelton |
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October, 2004:
Hello,
I noticed you have been getting quite a few photos of Black and
Yellow Argiopes....
I noticed they get quite large! Here's a couple shots I took of one
before it devoured my Saturn... HaHa.... Amazing spider!
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October, 2004:
We live in Alpharetta, GA and this very large and beautiful spider
is living outside the front door of our house. It's web is suspended
between the side of the house and a large pot of flowers. Would
anybody be able to tell us what kind it is and whether we should
call it him or her?
Reply: This is a black and yellow
argiope.
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October, 2004:
Hi!
I am writing from the southern coast of Maine, USA. This lovely
spider
is hanging out by our front door. Any idea what it might be?
Thanks, Ute.
Reply: This is a black and yellow
argiope.
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September, 2004:
Last week I came across this spider at the Mayan ruins site in Tulum
(Yucatan), Mexico. Although your spider web site is aimed
principally at Australia and U.S. species, perhaps someone can
please identify this spider for me.
Ken Massey Indianapolis Indiana USA
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September, 2004:
Hello my name is Andrew, this is my first post here. I live in
New Windsor Maryland. An agricultural rural area (what is left) in
Maryland. My wife and I just moved into this new home and found this
spider (picture attached) on one side of the house. Her first
reaction was “ewwwwwww, spider kill it, kill it…” I was like, Hmmm
cool looking. I wonder if it is poisonous.” I hate killing things
just because…So I am writing to you to see if you can help me
identify what it is. I think it is a common Orb spider but I have
never seen one with a big Egg sac? Next to it. Unfortunately I had
no ruler handy to measure it when I took the picture. It has a quite
large web. Thank you and good day
Regards,
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September, 2004:
I live in Southeaster Wisconsin and found this spider. Could you
identify this species. Dave |
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September, 2004:
Hello,
I found this nice Argiope out in my screened patio. I'm in Clermont,
FL , 20 miles east of Orlando, FL. The pictures were taken today
9/24/04.
Thank you,
Thomas Stokes
World Wide Operations Management Team Lead
Tie Line 631-8161 |
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Reply: It's a
black and yellow argiope.
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September, 2004:
Dear Glenda: My co-workers sister found the attached spider outside
her home this
morning and she says it measures about 3 inches long. Could you
please respond to this email and let me know what kind of Spider
this is.
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September, 2004:
This is a writing spider my husband brought me back from South
Carolina, we live in CA, and now she is my pet. I would just like to
know if there is anything I can do to make her comfortable. I have
tarantulas but they a little easier. Thank you
Jeanette Hughes, Redlands CA |
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18 September, 2004:
Hiya, went though pages and pages of your website but found nothing
resembling this very colorful spider I have living in my flowers
outside my house. Its been there for about 3 weeks now and has made
itself quite at home. Any clues as to what kind of spider? I thought
it would at least make a colourful addition to your website. If I was
to guess at its size, the body is probably an inch long and 1/4 inch
wide. (rough guess)
Thanks!
Dan
Portland, ME USA |
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16 September, 2004:
I found this extremely large (5-6 inches) black and yellow beauty
hanging
out in the plants near our back yard pool in Los Angeles,
California. Was a
bit worried about it and then found your very friendly and useful
website.
So thanks for doing all that work to put the site together. I'm
attaching a
photo to add to your extensive files.
Thanks again,
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16 September, 2004:
I just saw this spider
beside our garage and hurried to take pictures for I had never seen
one like it before and desperately wanted to find out what it was. I
saw your website (thank goodness) and think it is a golden
orb-weaver spider, but not sure.
Jan Lindauer
Evansville, In
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15 September, 2004:
Here's a picture of an
Argiope I found near my pond. I live in Hershey
Pennsylvania. Thanks for the excellent web site.
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14 September, 2004:
Hello
Great web site. I live in Bear,DE and i found two different spiers
and i have no idea what kind they are or even if they are poison
spiders.Can you help?
Ron in Bear,DE |
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14 September, 2004:
Hi,
I have three of these in my garden in SW Michigan. Can anyone tell
me what they are and if they're poisonous?
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13 September, 2004:
I found this spider on my
out building. I have never seen one in this area this large. Just
wondering what kind it was. I live in Forsyth County, North
Carolina.
Great site!
Thanks,
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10 September, 2004:
This spider was on the front of my garage this afternoon.
Haven't a clue as just what species it is. Perhaps you could help
identify it for me.
Would appreciate any information you may have on it as well.
Thanks very much.
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10 September, 2004:
I live in Brooks, Alberta Canada and found two of these
spiders in my flowers. The pictures are of the underside of the
spider. Could you tell me if they are part of the ST Andrew`s Cross
family of spiders? If not what are they called, and are they
poisonous?
Thank You Kindly
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9 September, 2004:
Hi,
This spider made her web right outside my son’s window. Therefore,
we are able to watch her all the time, and not bother her. We have
seen her catch several other bugs, and then watch her eat them later
on. It is really amazing. Your site is great! After I saw her for
the first time, I scream and then ran to the computer to figure out
what it was. Your site was the first I came, and it answered all my
questions. Thanks!!
~Amber
Austin, Texas |
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8 September, 2004:
Hello,
My son came across this amazing spider in my butterfly garden just
about a foot away from my pond. I think it's a Argiope but not
really sure. Some of the pictures attached are large you may want to
make them smaller, I thought maybe you would like to add them to
your wonderful collection. Your site is very informative, thank you.
Sandy
Baltimore, Md |
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8 September, 2004:
Hi there! I found this spider in my yard and was wondering
what kind it is and if it is dangerous or not? The web has been
broken it use to have a very thick zigzag down the middle of it. I f
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7 September, 2004:
Hi,
I've found this spider right in front of our house in Shreveport,
Louisiana. It's over 3 inches long. Any help identifying this "tiny
and cute" creature would be very much appreciated. :-)
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7 September, 2004:
Good morning . My husband found this bad girl a couple of
weeks ago. I have what most people call a phobia to spiders... I was
scared at first know I think she is esquistit and i am enjoying
watching her and learning more about her..I am so glad i didn't ask
my husband to kill her..I have found a fasination to her and her
species ..My boys and I have enjoyed your web sight ..I home school
and am most excited to use your web site more thouroghly..I enjoyed
the other pic i saw
from people I am sending some along ...I think she is quite beitiful!!!
We are going to try and feed her afteer hearing the other
people talking about doing this..,Thank you so much for your web
site ..Sincerly a mother of three boys in Toccoa,Ga..ps i think a
boy
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7 September, 2004:
Hi,
Here is a picture of what I believe to be a St.
Andrew's Cross spider...I could be wrong. It was found living
happily in the weeds next to a friends driveway up here in the
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7 September, 2004:
Hello, I've just discovered your excellent web
site, so nice to see others who appreciate the spiders in their
gardens! Here are some of my photos of agriopes. There has been a
tremendous number of these in my garden this summer. I've so enjoyed
watching them from the egg sac stage to the mature adults. Wonderful
creatures! Best wishes, Sue
Great pictures, Sue, thanks. Click for a
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7 September, 2004:
Hello,
I live in Greenwood IN. I was walking by our pond and I seen this
spider. It is about 2 - 2 1/2in long. I have never seen anything
like it. Could you please tell me if it is dangerous and what type
of Spider it is?
Thankyou for your help.
Jordan
P.S. Your Web Site is very Cool |
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7 September, 2004:
Hi,
I was out in my yard in Missouri, near St. Louis, and I came across
this spider. It was about the size of a silver dollar and I am not
sure what it is. It looks different than any other spider I had seen
before. If you have any ideas, let me know.
Thanks,
Steve |
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5 September, 2004:
Almost walked right into this bad boy. I believe it is a
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5 September, 2004:
Here are some North Carolina spiders that have appear red
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5 September, 2004:
I almost ran into this bugger this morning while mowing the
backyard. I didn’t want to kill it until I knew what it was. Thanks
for the information on your website. I live in Virginia Beach, Va
and am sending this photo so you can use if you want. It was taken
with a Nikon D-100 and the resolution of the photo provides for some
great detail.
Thanks
Martin Lopshansky |
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5 September, 2004:
Here are some North Carolina spiders that have appear red
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4 September, 2004:
HI:
I TOOK A COUPLE PICTURES OF THIS SPIDER AND WONDERED WHAT IT IS. CAN
YOU TELL ME WHAT THIS DOES? IS IT POISONOUS? THANKS.
MIKE |
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3 September, 2004:
I know you don't identify spiders as you said, but would one
of your readers be able to identify this guy? He gets bigger all the
time! We are in the Hill Country of Texas. Thanks! He is a
brighter (she) yellow than showing. 2 egg sacks have now
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3 September, 2004:
Glen,
You have a nice collection of spider pictures. Especially of the
Black and Yellow Argiope. Found this one outside my porch door in
New Jersey and thought I'd snap a picture of it. Scared me at first,
since it was the largest wild spider I had encountered. Didn't
look poisonous (most poisonous seem to have round bodies), but
glad to find out what it was
on your site.
Michael Chin
New Jersey
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3 September, 2004:
here is a pic of my black and gold argiope with what we
beleive to be an egg sack is this also correct we will appreciate
your reply Alex Barnes age 11
melissa smith
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3 September, 2004:
She is AMAZING!! My 3 year old and I love to sit and watcher
her wrap her pray in “cling wrap”. I caught a few pests (yellow
jackets and moths) for her and we watched her do her thing. I grew
up in Bermuda and saw lots of huge banana spiders, so seeing her was
a thrill. Thanks to your website I was able to get more information
to dig deeper into our spiders’ world, like shaking her web to scare
away another spider. It’s the end of summer and we are going to miss
her, but hopefully one of her 500-1500 babies hang around for next
year. JUST AMAZING!
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1 September, 2004:
Hi - I live in Vermont and I found this spider on my stairway. It
is quite impressive and I am unable to figure out what type of
spider it is and was wondering if you could help. Your website
is great!
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1 September, 2004:
This lady took up residence by our front door 3
weeks ago. She has become a special pet. Your website is
great. Thanks for puttingout all that information.
Bob Hawks Tulsa, Ok |
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August, 2004:
Glen - Found this black/yellow argiope yesterday in my La Habra,
CA garden. Scared the %^&@# out of me as I have never seen anything
like it! I immediately got onto your website and had no problem
identifying it. I hope you and others enjoy the digital shots I have
taken of "Toni." I used my Olympus C-740 Ultra Zoom - the detail is
incredible. I hope she stays around awhile - maybe I'll see her lay
some eggs. Feeding is pretty incredible too - she plucks her
webstrings to make sure her prey is secure and then goes in for the
kill either devouring it there or wrapping it up in a silk coccoon -
then right back to center for the next victim to come along. Very
cool!
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August, 2004:
Hello, Glen. We found this spider outside our
house.It's black, with yellow markings on top of his belley. Can you
tell us what it is and if they are dangerous?
Thank you.
Ivett from southern PA.
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August, 2004:
Hi We were just in North Carolina at the
southern coast and observed this spider on a wall right next to the
bay. I have looked through your site and have not seen anything
close. I have also looked on the web at other sites and haven't seen
any thing close. I will tell you that it was about 2 to 3 " long and
1 1/2" wide, moved pretty fast when touched with a stick.any ideas?
Thanks
Ed Linds
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August, 2004:
Hi there:This morning, I was in my yard chasing
grasshoppers to feed to my fish. One of them jumped into some
high grass and directly into a spider web. And the spider was
there. She (I assume it was a female) immediately wrapped up
the grasshopper for a later meal. Nice looking spider. Had to
take some pics. Here are some of them.
Garry,
Ottawa, Ontario |
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26 August,
2004:
HI wanted to thank you for your entertaining
site not to mention highly educational. I wanted to share a picture
I took in the middle of my oak on my farm, every spring early summer
the oak make this juice that attract everything from butterflies
(tons of those), green beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.. and of
course Spider, ton of them, mostly weaver like picture #
P7150120.JPG, but I found one that I believe is a huge female orb
weaver family, but unsure of the extra group (the pattern on her
back is very different from the others around here.. picture
#P7150148.JPG, maybe you know perhaps which group it belong to..
Patrick and Lisa Bureau, Royse City Texas |
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26 August, 2004:
Hello Glen,
My sons and I discovered this beautiful spider a couple of days ago.
Its web is behind our garbage cans and catches flies regularly. It's
appetite is so voracious I had to find out what it was. I was
amazed when I checked out your web site and found an entire page of
these spiders!! My oldest son has taken to feeding it whatever bugs
he can catch and it devours them. Today it had two medium sized
grasshoppers..Thanks for the
information on the website...Northeastern Pennsylvania.. these
spiders!! Here are a couple of pictures... Northeastern P |
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26 August, 2004:
I found this spider & web attached to my front porch in
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