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Black-and-Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

Photograph taken on Sunday, September 16, 2018 by Henry
Black-and-Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

Black-and-Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

Beside the hose faucet on the front of our house is a largish spider web. It’s been there for quite some time and I took a picture of this lady a few weeks ago. She was much smaller then and I might have thought it was a different spider, except Cathy’s been watching her, every time she uses the hose. Needless to say, she comes in from the other side and does her best to keep her distance. The spider, a black-and-yellow argiope (Argiope aurantia), is a good inch or more in length, not counting her legs. She’s a beauty, don’t you think?

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Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

Photograph taken on Sunday, September 21, 2025 by Henry
Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)

I have a container on our back patio with a couple dahlias in it. They were given to me by a neighbor who grows them because I gave him some that came from our friend Anna a couple years ago, shortly after they moved in. Anyway, from that container to the one next to it there is a large spider web, built by this black and yellow argiope (Argiope aurantia), also known as the yellow garden spider.

If it looks huge to you, well, it’s pretty big. There are bigger spiders as you head south and it’s nothing compared to some tropical spiders, but fo9r our area, it’s pretty large. The females (like this one) can measure up to 25mm in length (not counting the legs), while males are only 5 or 6mm in length.

They make a very distinctive zigzag pattern called a stabilimentum (reinforced area) in the center of their web.

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