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Spider - Argiope aurantia
Copyright © 2008 Molly Jacobson

Spider - Argiope aurantia
Merrimack, NH, New Hampshire, USA
August 11, 2008
Size: around 1.5 in.
At first I thought this was an argiope, but it had different markings than the black and yellow variety. It was really brown and yellow, and the legs do not have stripes. It spins a zig-zag in its web, and doesn't an argiope do that? Its web is huge, the one I found was easily 2 feet across. It had trapped a dragonfly. Web was between milkweed plants.

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Spider - Argiope aurantia Spider 2 - Argiope aurantia Spider 3 - Argiope aurantia
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 6 February, 2009 - 5:56pm
Last updated 10 March, 2009 - 6:30pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 10 March, 2009 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

Yes...
A beautiful female. This can be moved to the species page.
… Ross Hill, 18 February, 2009 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

Definately a...
... Yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia .
… Carmen Champagne, 6 February, 2009 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

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