Orb Weaver

In Your Face Spiders and Other Orb Weavers
Yellow Garden Spider
boggs.47@osu.edu Fri, 09/11/2020 - 15:32
Two of our larger native spiders found in Ohio are orb weavers (family Araneidae) so-named because of their circular (orb) webs. The webs are intricate structures involving both sticky and non-sticky silk.
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Joe Boggs

A Spider Encounter

Black-and-Yellow Garden Spider
I ran into this spider today; literally.  Not the very same spider.  I last saw that one scurrying away on the ground after dropping from the front of my shirt accompanied by some high-pitched sounds I didn't know I could make.  No doubt the mad spider would have also made noises - if it could - after I blundered through its beautifully constructed orb web.
Bug Bytes
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Joe Boggs
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