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Wow Ciphor, you won't drop it. This really has just gotten ridiculous now and I will be ending my part after this. The ignorance you claim I show is no worse than what you are showing by utterly refusing to accept after I have told you repeatedly that I was not responding directly to your post...

There was no need to quote your post in my last response (nor this one) because you know for sure I am responding to you. I didn't quote the original poster when I posted what I thought was my first, because some people get annoyed when photos are reposted in quotes (I know I do). But my post...

I "directly attacked" your post?! Do you see how often I post on here? Maybe once every 10 months or so? I didn't even remember that I had already posted in this thread previously, so I thought I was seeing it for the first time and replying for the first time. Then that is when you became...

Calm down Ciphor, I never proclaimed myself a "spider expert". No need to be a jerk about it. I am 29 now and have been into studying/collecting argiopes since the age of four. I always hunt for Argiope aurantia because they are my favorites. I can tell from an underside (and even the web if...

The image is definitely of Argiope trifasciata (banded garden spider). Argiope aurantia usually has more of a blackish tint on them that contrasts more with the reddish brown spinnerets. Also, the legs are a dead giveaway since they are banded brown and black, whereas aurantia lacks the banding...

Alright, well then I guess it isn't only my area afterall. I am going to wait another week and then try one more search to see if any more came out of hiding. If not then I fear for their population numbers for next year. Like I said, in 24 years of studying/collecting them, I have never seen...

Yea, that is what I am afraid of. It hasn't been quite as hot here as it is in Texas, but it's definitely been hotter/drier this year than usual. I just thought that the black and yellow garden spiders preferred more sun/heat than even the bandeds (but I can't find either species). We don't have...

I live in west central Ohio. Every summer (for the past 24 years) one major thing I always look forward to are seeing how many argiope spiders are on my property. I take care of/feed them just like my pets and every year, I have around at least 25-30 on my property. Well every year, except this...

Now in this one children's book about garden spiders I have, it states that argiopes in warmer/tropical climates can live for several years, as long as they aren't killed by frosts and cold winters. Is that true or do all argiopes, regardless of where they live, only live for less than one year...

LoL, I used to do the same thing. In fact my mom used to have to drive me up and down country roads and every time I'd see an Argiope, I'd have her stop the vehicle so I could capture it in a bucket and bring it home to release in the shrubs/weeds on my property. I'd come home with more than...

Yea, it really is a shame. I look forward to watching/feeding these every summer. But it seems like no sooner that I find them, then they end up dying or mysteriously disappearing with only a ragged looking web left behind. I am assuming something is killing them (birds, praying mantis, wasps...

She does look like the standard banded argiope from what I can see. They can have slight differences between them and still be the same species. Argiope aurantia (my favorites) can have slight differences in their color and patterns where the yellow spots are closer together, or they can have a...

Well I looked at the weeds behind the house today and this year I have one black and yellow, while my neibor has about 16 behind his house. :wall: They just didn't come to me this year. I am gonna ask him the next time he is out if he will let me transport a few of those little beauties onto my...

Can I ask what is wrong with the wood chips/mulch? I've been using the same stuff for the 13 years I have had her. It's the only stuff that the local pet shops carry that they said is safe for tarantulas. I believe that it is called "Lizard Litter". I don't see any super sharp pieces and she...

Good God! :eek: You really have that many tarantulas?! Whoa...that is amazing. I'd never get bored looking at all of those. Right now I only have a rose hair and her name is "Araena" Jack

Wow I so wish I could clone you and bring one of your clones back to Ohio. :p I have been searching for a girl in the cursed state of Ohio for well over 15 years who isn't downright terrified of spiders and I just cannot ever find them and I do not really know how to go about finding them...

Mine does the same thing with her palps and using them to brush her fangs, especially after she gets done lifting some of the bedding wood chips from one area of her aquarium to another (she uses her fangs/palps to hold and transport them). Also after feeding she will also sometimes do that. I...

I've had a rose hair for about 13 years now, and only recently has she stopped eating. Typically she would only stop eating like a week or two before she would molt, but she hasn't molted in over 3 years. She also only eats in the mid-late spring, summer and early fall, so I don't know why she...

Oh yea? I think I know where Bethel is at (well sort of). Is it the same place where Bethel High School is at? I went there on a field trip when I was younger (if it's the same place?). At any rate, I am glad to see that there is at least one other buckeye arachnid fan around here. :) Jack

That is actually pretty cool looking. I only woulda wanted it facing head down like they do in nature and the 2 bottom yellow spots should have been larger than he made them. Otherwise, if I had to like a tattoo, I'd like that one. lol Thanks for the pics. Jack