Sunshine Beauty

Yellow Garden Spider

Argiope aurantia

 

Arachtober 17th

 

I'd seen plenty of photos of these, but this was my first actual sighting, and I was so excited that I got my landlady and showed her, too. She thought it was pretty amazing, too - I have a cool landlady who's glad I like bugs so much. ;-)

 

I have to say, this was smaller than I thought it would be, judging from photos I'd seen. It was down in the ivy, and I think the white oval of stabilimenta was around the size of a half dollar. Originally the spider was on the far side of it where I couldn't get to it, but much to my delight, it moved around to my side so I could get this shot.

 

It was very hard not to post this spider back in July when I found it. ;-)

Done