We have a very large spider that has decided to make it's home on our garage wall. The spider is so large that when the kids spotted it, they weren't sure if it was a spider or not. Daddy told us it was a corn spider and said we couldn't kill it. After a couple of days when Daddy wasn't so sure it was a corn spider and Mommy had a nightmare about him, Mommy decided to do a little research on it. It is called a black and yellow Argiope. I was relieved to know that it's not poisonous but it's egg sack has between 300 to 1400 eggs! Upon that information I told Adam to kill the nest right away, which he did reluctantly. However a couple days later, she produced another sac. This time we will wait until she dies and then kill her nest. According to the computer, the baby spiders won't come out until spring so we have plenty of time to kill them. As gross as the spider looks, it actually has been interesting to watch. Her web has an amazing zigzag through it and she has caught so many insects on her web. Oh the science lessons you receive when you live in the country.
You can see the zig zag pattern on the web.
The brown spot on the wall is the smooshed egg sack. If you look closely you can see how large her web is. There were rain drops on the web the morning I took these pictures.
Her second egg nest, on a different wall. She sat on top of the nest for several days guarding it. But she is now back to her web.
1 comments:
A pretty but very creepy spider! Is that the type that tears it's web down every night and rebuilds it?
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