What's this spider?

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BurnsideBob
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What's this spider?

Post by BurnsideBob » August 13th, 2015, 3:57 pm

This spider is in my garden on my basil. That object below the spider is a honeybee it caught--leg tip to leg tip this spider is 3" across. Anyone know anything about them?
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Koda
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by Koda » August 13th, 2015, 4:25 pm

What a cool looking spider... curiosity got me so I did some digging and Google tells me its a Corn Spider.

The zig zag pattern in the web in your photo helps confirm that in the Wikipedia entry for Corn Spiders...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by miah66 » August 14th, 2015, 8:39 am

Pretty lame name for such a cool spider.
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by Koda » August 14th, 2015, 10:45 am

miah66 wrote:Pretty lame name for such a cool spider.
thats what I thought when I read about it. Its near identical European cousin got the name "wasp spider", much cooler
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by BurnsideBob » August 14th, 2015, 4:34 pm

Koda, thanks for ID'ing my friend. If she grows much bigger I'll post a follow up photo!
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by forester » August 22nd, 2015, 12:34 pm

Koda wrote:
miah66 wrote:Pretty lame name for such a cool spider.
thats what I thought when I read about it. Its near identical European cousin got the name "wasp spider", much cooler
I dunno, I like corn a lot more than I like wasps. Ice cream spider would also be a cool name. "Wasp Spider" sounds like a Sci-Fi Original.
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Re: What's this spider?

Post by bobcat » August 31st, 2015, 1:40 pm

They're more commonly known as garden spiders (Argiope aurantia). There's one under my front porch step that has a 1" body and is at least 3" across.
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