Yellow Garden Spider

Notes:

Large, vertical, orb-shaped web is usually built amid tangled grasses, weeds, briars, and other vegetation, from near ground level to about three feet above it. Web usually decorated with a bold, zigzag band of silk called a stabilimentum. Spider occupies hub (center) of web, hanging head down. Immature spiders may spin an oval or circular stabilimentum in the hub of the web. The web is usually eaten and rebuilt every day, with the exceptions of the periods around molting and egg-laying. This is one of the largest members of the orb weaver family Araneidae in North America. Because of its size and bright coloration, this species is one of the most commonly known and recognized by observers.