Yellow and Black Garden Spider

Description:

This spider and her eggs were found by my mother in between our old car and neighbors fence.

Habitat:

they live in wooded areas mainly live in gardens due to its name.

Notes:

These spiders are amazing garden must haves. They are real good at getting rid of the unwanted bugs and pests that get in you crop fields, green houses, and flower beds. Garden Spider is one of the largest I have seen in or around my house. This one had an egg sack that unfortunately didn't make it through a bad rain storm. I was hoping the baby spiders would escape but the thing was destroyed and the mother was no where to be found and the web had been mangled. The Garden spider makes a web shape like most others in a hexagonal shape but they make a zigzagged line down the middle of the web. This possibly acts like the main tripwire. That is all the web is a massive snare that act like a tripwire. Much like the hairs on the petals of the insect eating plants known as the Venus fly trap. The use of a web is very effective. Don't want to hunt for prey; have your prey come to you. Spiders are very successful ambush predators and here is something quite cool have you ever wanted to known that age old question: Why does a spider not become ensnared in its own web? well on a documentary I watched once said that they put a special substance on their legs and that keeps them from getting stuck. Another cool feature is this that the spider also recycles its web... That's right it eats its web because it can't produce enough silk so it reuses the silk that it has to make repairs and multiple webs. Pretty cool if you ask me.