8.14.2006

Argiope

This beautiful spider has been living in a friend's oak tree. She has already laid one enormous egg sac and is reportedly getting ready to lay another.

We had an argiope living at our old apartment, but I haven't seen any at our new house which makes me sad. However, I think I might have seen two caterpillar hunter larva on one of our crape myrtles, so that is some consolation. I'm tired of only having nasty bugs like scorpions and ants around.

3 comments:

Kelvin said...

Hello from a blogger down under in New Zealand. I was searching the blog world when your blog popped up. They are all "God's little creatures" !!! Look after them. sooner or later they will feast on each other.

J said...

That is a fabulous spider.

Felix said...

Orb weavers are beautiful spiders. I remember watching them built giant symmetrical webs in the little evergreen shrubs that grew on the embankment in front of our house in Pennsylvania years ago.

With luck they'll catch and eat less esthetically-pleasing bugs that might otherwise plague you.