While cleaning my flower garden out for Fall, I discovered this tiny egg casing hanging in a large chrysanthemum plant that I was cutting back. I am assuming that it is a spider egg casing because of the silky strands holding it in place. It looks like it may be empty because of the tiny hole in front. That may have been the exit door for the baby spiders that hatched inside? Fascinating little structure! I searched for images like it and found some Orb Weaver spider egg casings that were similar, but I don't know if they are common to this area. I'd like to know what spider created this little house.

Here is an image of the spider from my yard in 2010.