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Garden Spider

Argiope aurantia

Description:

A garden spider that built a web on my tomato plants. They often bounce in their webs to intimidate onlookers.

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2 Comments

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

Welcome! Wonderful first spotting! They also use the bouncing technique to check if there is food on their web! Do you know what she's eating in the second photo?

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

Welcome to Project Noah, skotomorph.

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skotomorph

Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, USA

Spotted on Sep 6, 2012
Submitted on Sep 18, 2012

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