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White-Backed Garden Spider
SpiderArgiope trifasciata
Typical Orb Weavers, Family Araneidae
At first you may confuse this spider with its close relative, the yellow garden spider. A closer look will reveal a slightly smaller spider with a more sharply pointed back end. The abdomen is patterned with many thin silver and yellow transverse lines and thicker black, spotty lines. The carapace is small and covered with silvery hairs. White-backed garden spider females are larger than the males, ranging from 15-25mm as opposed to 4-5.5mm for the males. Compared to the yellow garden spider, this orb weaver tends to build its web slightly lower in the vegetation. It also is less likely to be found in shade and is more tolerant of open areas with sparse brush. White-backed garden and yellow garden spiders feed on similar prey.
I suspect this is your spider, looks like it to me.Kyrin
Blackdesertwind wrote:Thank you Kyrin! 😀
You are welcome, I found her by putting in orb spiders, and then just searched through until I found a match, took all of 10 mins.
That’s the problem with search engines, if you can’t figure out what to research, finding something is like a needle in a haystack, though this time I got lucky.
Kyrin
RIP my spider
so about a week ago I’d found out my spider had laid an eggsack. I took the eggsack from her, flushed it, and put a couple crickets in her cage to make up for it…
it didn’t make up for it…
I found her belly up dead just now 🙁
*is very sad* 😥
*shudders* I’m sorry about your spider though……..I’m deathly afraid of them when they’re alive.
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsMy condolenses. 🙁 Honestly, I’m impressed you had her as a pet all this time!
I’m afraid that’s why I won’t get giant millipeds, tarantulas, or any other creepy-crawly as a pet–they’re fine alive, but for some reason I can’t handle touching dead bugs! 😳
I’m sorry about your spider 🙁 Considering that most other members said they would have squished it if it was on their pillow, it’s a good thing it was your house because you gave the spider a second chance at life 🙂 It could have just been her time to go.
I use to have a huge house spider in my bathroom for a long time that I would help feed occasionally by opening the screen at night to let some bugs fly in. It would disappear sometimes but always come back until one day it climbed behind the sink and I never saw it again. I still think about her whenever new spiders make camp in the bathroom.
Didn’t someone post a picture of a huge spider that was as big as a garbage can lid? I can’t remember anything else about it except that I was so impressed by the sheer size of that monster spider. I think it may have been from someone in Texas but I’m not even sure about that. Whew! That was one BIG spider!!! 😮 😮
…Sounds like one of those camel spiders in iraq *shudder*
Got a busted Windstone?
drag0nfeathersdesign@gmail.com
*OPEN for repairs**SEEKING GRAILS*
Arc-en-ciel Emperor
Siphlophis Male Dragon
Calypso Hatching Empress
Ivory Moss Sitting Baby Kirin
Tattoo Mother Kirin
Emerald Tabby Male Griffin
Tie Dye + Orion Hatching Royalty
Indigo Rockfish + Flame Tabby Little Rock Dragons
Dragon Quail + Obsidian Frost Old Warriors
Betta Sun Dragon + Male Dragon
Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry Dragons
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