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Argiope trifasciata
Excellent beautiful spider with yellow and black markings. It is a form of argiope, definitely female. There are many types of argiopes. They are common in gardens throughout the world.
It lived in a hanging basket full of portulaca for about 1 month outside my front porch next to my flower garden. It was there during the August and September months. The habitat is hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. We are surrounded by woods and a nearby river.
One day it was just gone and its web was destroyed. We figure a bird came down and ate it. In some countries argiopes have been used in "spider fighting" matches for centuries...see the wikipedia link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_figh... See additional spotting for additional photos: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/816...
Oh, Apple... I have seen ones like this in my yard also! Love these spiders..
Added to the mission Midwestern Gardens...feel free to join if you garden in the Midwestern United States.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8472...
I did bring a jacket but I found it awesome considering I came in the last week of Feb..first week of march....Monterey Bay was fantastic. See my seal I found in Carmel (link below).....was my first time out on the Pacific Coast (have been to Southern Cali since then) and I loved it! Muir Woods was the most amazing thing I have ever seen and stumbled into it simply by accident.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/815...
One poet said that " The coldest winter is a summer day in San Francisco"
It is not as warm as Easterners think.I had a visitor from New York who complained why no one one asked her to bring her winter jacket!!
Were you travelling with a jacket?
Having said this , i do agree that San Francisco is pleasant .
I love the San Francisco weather! Excellent! We did a week there a few years ago and travelled from San Francisco to Monterey Bay and stopped at every beach part along the way...took us 9 hours for what should be a 2-3 hour drive. Was fantastic. And then we came back through San Jose and I now know what they mean when the talk about the California happy cows..brilliant rolling green meadows for those cows.
And, yes, I work hard on my garden...I feel like I shouldn't post pictures of flowers not from Michigan though...I will get some of our local plants this spring..we have some beautiful wild violet in the yard. And, I have never photographed spiders much (except this one) but we have some great ones.. will try to capture them in the spring.
We are in San Franscisco and the same temperature here right now. It fluctuates between 30 and 60.
We moved from Chicago 12 years ago. But our heating bill is the same as in Chicago!!
Well it's now January and no snow to speak of at all.....unseasonably warm here this week. Was in the 40s today.
Welcome to Project Noah! Looks like you have a beautiful garden. i was looking at your location and I thought where is the snow. Then I saw the date.
Maybe, she never laid any eggs that we saw. If she had we might have thought she abandoned afterward.
Hi Apple,
it is an amazing looking spider, beautiful colours. the web of our spider was also wrecked, perhaps they do it themselves. we too thought it had been eaten by birds.
thank you. I have been hanging out here with an ID for probably a month or so..I am addicted to Project Noah! And then I remembered I had my great spider photos and decided to join.
Spotted on Sep 1, 2007
Submitted on Dec 22, 2011
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