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Re: [GSAS-Member] spiders
Shango,
Sounds like a Garden spider to me. They are an orb-weaver that can get quite
large (quarter-size abdomen) and are beautifully colored yellow/black/white.
We called them banana spiders back in Illinois and you'd find tons of them in
fields in the summer, almost crashing right into their webs but stopping just
in time to avoid a nice spider brooch. Of course the ones in Illinois got
bigger than the ones here. If you're able to find an egg sac near the webs,
I'd love some garden spiders in my garden. I bring orb-weavers into my kitchen
to take care of the fruit flies/house flies as needed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
Kat Hentsch
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