Wow... I had forgotten how fascinating true spiders are! I have been so wrapped up in Tarantulas the past few years that I had neglected my childhood passion... spiders!
I was called by a local woman who had got some flowers from Florida. In them she found a good sized (inch and a half legspan) black and yellow beauty! She called the local pet shop and they passed her on to be (I am the spider-man around here!)
I went to her place to pick it up. What I found was something I had never seen before... it was surely not from around here! She is a stunningly beautiful Black yellow and silver spider that had already set up a gorgeous web inside her container. I mean this was the prettiest spider I have ever seen!
I knew by the body structure that this was an orb weaver... so I whipped out my trusty spider book and found a perfect match! She is a Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)
It was like going back to old school for me to watch a true spider eat. I am so used to tarantula ambush attacks that it was a nice change to watch the skill and finesse of a spider on a web. She felt the vibes... then stormed down to bite the cricket and wrap it up in a silk coccoon. This was just like the old days when I would toss bugs into the webs of garden spiders in the back yard and watch for hours.
Just thought I would share my trip down memory lane with you all.
I was called by a local woman who had got some flowers from Florida. In them she found a good sized (inch and a half legspan) black and yellow beauty! She called the local pet shop and they passed her on to be (I am the spider-man around here!)
I went to her place to pick it up. What I found was something I had never seen before... it was surely not from around here! She is a stunningly beautiful Black yellow and silver spider that had already set up a gorgeous web inside her container. I mean this was the prettiest spider I have ever seen!
I knew by the body structure that this was an orb weaver... so I whipped out my trusty spider book and found a perfect match! She is a Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia)
It was like going back to old school for me to watch a true spider eat. I am so used to tarantula ambush attacks that it was a nice change to watch the skill and finesse of a spider on a web. She felt the vibes... then stormed down to bite the cricket and wrap it up in a silk coccoon. This was just like the old days when I would toss bugs into the webs of garden spiders in the back yard and watch for hours.
Just thought I would share my trip down memory lane with you all.