This beastie (around 2 inches, tip to tip) has taken residence on the outside of my living-room window, right at nose-view height for our dog to stare at.
I looked her up: The (harmless) female Argiope-aurantia spins this zig-zaggedy web, onto which a male will create his own on a corner. She's now been with us about 2 months.
By Nica
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She is beautiful; and what a great photograph! Thanks for sharing!
Aren't those spiders just the prettiest! And at the same time the scariest. I had 2 visiting last summer-one at my picture window that was about 3 maybe even 4 inches long and the other was smaller about an inch or a tiny bit bigger. I was saddened by their loss when a crew came to fix hurricane damage on our house and one of the men killed both of my beauties because he was afraid of spiders!
Blow gently on the web and the spider will start doing push-ups, shaking the web. It's a defense act they use to scare away predators plus catch they own prey.
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