Neat spider & web

[valb561]

Found this beauty on my patio this morning. I've seen smaller ones in the shade house, so they're either young ones or males. Looked on the "web" & found out it's an "Argiope aurantia". From what I found, it looks like the only black & white ones are in Florida, others are black & yellow & have big bodies.

[Cjcorner]

And we are sooooooooo glad YOU found it on YOUR porch instead of it being on say....Mine! Eeeekkkkk.....although, it is pretty and it's got a cool web. Still glad it's at your place. lol
Connie

[Molly Taco]

COOL !!
Cin

[valb561]

And we are sooooooooo glad YOU found it on YOUR porch instead of it being on say....Mine! Eeeekkkkk.....although, it is pretty and it's got a cool web. Still glad it's at your place. lol
Connie

Connie, they eat those nasty little gnats & such, are you sure you don't want me to send you some???

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Cool web that one made. Looks like a big zipper. I visited my folks in Texas this past week and there was a big black and yellow one like this on their porch. My two nieces (15 & 10) and my nephew (7) would catch grasshoppers other assorted bugs and throw up into the web to watch the spider first bite and then spin into a web the paralyzed grasshoppers. I made them quit. I think that spider grew about twice its size while I was there. At that rate, it would start eating the cats next!

Cheers,
BD

[Shaydra]

ROTFL! I'm sure the spider loved your neices & nephew... and can't wait till they come back and visit again!

Creepy/cool spider you found ... I'll take one if it stays away from me and just eats the bugs. *shudder* Imagine walking into its web one night and having it crawl on me...

[JUDIUK]

Pretty for a spider! Judi

[pavel]

Beautiful.

Last I remember reading, while scientists still aren't sure what the purpose of that "zipper" is, there was some speculation that it might actually help attract prey.

[Phyrex]

Is it weird that I've been scratching my back ever since I started reading this thread?
Nice coloration though.

[murgdan]

Imagine walking into its web one night and having it crawl on me...

Uuuuuhhhhh....
It happened to me! We have a garden spider that makes these big webs near our front door in autumn...for a few nights instead of making them up near the gutters she got creative and attached one end to the gutter and the other end to a bush on the other edge of the sidewalk! Its just in the area before the automatic porch light comes on....

...I don't walk first into the house anymore (without waving a large stick in front of me)

Cool looking spider you have though!