Spider – Black and Yellow
Q: A beautiful large black-and-yellow spider fashioned its web just outside our front door. I call it a zipper spider because of the zipper thing in the center. What is it actually?
A: It’s an argiope, also known as a writing spider or zipper spider. They are harmless, except to small insects which are unlucky enough to fly into their web. If they are in the way of going out the door, use a stick to wind up the web and put the critter in a less bothersome spot.
TAGS:
-
Advertisement
-
Follow Walter
-
Advertisement
-
-
December calendar
Time to pick a Christmas tree. The fewer green needles that come off in your hand...
Get The Checklist
-
-
-
name that plant
Post your puzzlers and help others with theirs.
Start Here
-
-
Trending Posts
-
1
Persimmon – Remove Bad Taste (Astringency)
-
2
Hibiscus – Something Is Eating The Leaves
-
3
White Mulberry vs Red Mulberry – Identification
-
4
Osage Orange (Bodark) Tree
-
5
Badminton – Grass type
-
1
Beggarweed, Beggartick – Identification
-
2
The Story of Bermudagrass – Dr. Glenn Burton
-
3
Two gardeners lament about squirrels eating their peaches and tomatoes
-
4
Fig – Pruning
-
5
Gardening in Georgia (Your Southern Garden) – TV Shows
-
-
Walter’s Bookshelf
Browse and purchase gardening books by Walter Reeves, plus select titles by other authors.
View books -
Popular topics
Soil Spring Summer Seed Winter Fall Flowers Weed Fertilizer Disease Shade Temperature Pots Oak Pine Pruning Mulch Watering Container Maple Compost Birds Herbicide Azalea Tomatoes Moisture Poison Pears Hydrangea Glyphosate Caterpillar Pests Cherry Roundup Irrigation Pesticide Pre-Emergent Stone Dogwood Peach Spider Pine Straw Magnolia Greenhouse Squash Squirrels Lemon Travel Beans Manure