Garden Spider
August 15th, 2005 | 
Author: We have a pretty cool Black-and-yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) in the back yard. I broke some of the web the other day when I was weeding, but the next day, it was all fixed and looking beautifully spiral.
Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski
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Cool! The black and yellow garden spider is one of my favorite spiders.
Thanks! They are pretty cool, aren’t they? We used to have lots of them in the backyard when I was growing up. My parents had a big patch of blackberry bushes behind the garage and they loved it in there
Thanks for stopping by.
KimL