This beatifully creepy creature is currently residing in one of my flower beds, as I discoved while doing some fall pruning & clean up. Enjoy if you can...eeeeek !
Well I found a big old toad doing my pruning last week end!...lol...What an excellent close up of this icky spider!!! Perfect focus and great color!
Joanie
What a beauty! Is it a friendly spider, that pretends to be horribly poisonous with its yellow and black markings, or is it highly venomous?
Had an interesting conversation with my son at breakfast this morning about spiders: including whether you could 'domesticate' a spider (make a change from a guard dog don't you think), and secondly, whether a Tarantula is the most deadly. I suggested that it the qualifier 'most' deadly was a little vague, since any spider that could knock you down with one bite (and the difference in morbidity rates being in seconds) wouldn't make much difference the the eventual result to the happless human.
Looking at various Google references to the Argiope, looks like you've got a friendly neighbour in your garden.
Joanie