My parents found this one in the garden. I may go and visit tomorrow to get some picures taken!

Edit: travelled to my parents place to go and take some pictures myself. Hope you'll like them.

Location: west-flanders, belgium

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Beautiful! And Helpful!

And at least in my area, "if it makes a pretty web it's harmless" applies. The only thing you have to be careful about with orb weavers is, if you leave indoor lights on overnight, you might walk out your sliding glass door into a faceful of web and spider.

Remember Moth -> (🕷️) ->Lamp

But the other good thing is, they're pretty chill and they value their web, even damaged, as a protein source to rebuild it every night. So if you make a cone of scrap paper you can roll the web up on the outside like cotton candy and the spider will cling to it, drop it into a bush near a window and it will be just as happy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My younger self would be horrified at the idea of spider web cotton candy but it sounds kinda cute. Nice way to move a friend out of the way

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Come to think of it, if you had a Halloween party with participants who were old enough to understand not to eat them, a bag of those little plastic spider rings and a cotton candy maker ... Dress as a witch, stir the "cauldron," stick on a spider or two.

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    Oh cool! I didn’t know that’s what that was called. The Argiope argentata in my backyard last year had a long zig zag one too!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Super pretty spider!! Thank you for sharing! 💚

    Edit: WOW!! The updated pictures are amazing. What a gorgeous lady!! Thank you for adding more pictures!!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Argiope sp, Argiope bruennichi if you are in Europe.

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