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Spider

argiope aurantia

Photo by auntnance123
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Field Notes

Habitat:

spotted in a tangle of different plants in frontard

Species ID Suggestions

Black and Yellow Garden spider, Writing spider, or Corn spider

Argiope aurantia

Comments (2)

Yes Reanne, in spiders Females are major. Males are almost 1/10 of their size. You can see small spider(not seen here) on web, those are male.
I think the females are the colorful ones so this one might be the female.
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PublishedMay 26, 2011

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