Meet Missy the Spider
I don’t know where the name came from but the boys named her Missy. Her real name is just yellow-and-black garden spider. She has caught grasshoppers and crickets the boys have thrown into her web. Great nature studies!
She’s about 2″ long and won’t make her web where I can get a great direct on-her shot.
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October 26th, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
She is a beauty. Looks like you ID’d her correctly. She is indeed a black and yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia. Isn’t she magnificent!
October 26th, 2006 @ 10:33 pm
She is, and she’s been fun to watch.
October 28th, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
Oh, fun. We had one in our yard the last two years running, and enjoyed feeding her (mostly cabbage loopers and tomato hornworms). I named them all Shelob. Ds named them Mary and Laura. (?!)