{"id":24705,"date":"2025-09-21T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24705"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:38:45","slug":"black-and-yellow-argiope-argiope-aurantia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24705","title":{"rendered":"Black and Yellow Argiope (<em>Argiope aurantia<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24707\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24707\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_026474.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black and Yellow Argiope (<em>Argiope aurantia<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 (<em>Argiope aurantia<\/em>), also known as the yellow garden spider.<\/p>\n<p>If it looks huge to you, well, it&#8217;s pretty big. There are bigger spiders as you head south and it&#8217;s nothing compared to some tropical spiders, but fo9r our area, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>They make a very distinctive zigzag pattern called a stabilimentum (reinforced area) in the center of their web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3781,1167,3780,954,955,956,177,3779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24709,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions\/24709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}