Comments & ID Thoughts
Black and Yellow Garden Spider
Web attached to a shed door. I need to move it so I can open door. Suggestions?
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- Submitted: Oct 17, 2021
- Photographed: Oct 17, 2021
- Spider: Argiope aurantia (Black and Yellow Garden Spider)
- Location: Biloxi,MS, Mississippi, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
This happens often. If you take a stick and pull the web aside slowly a spider will walk off to the side that is still attached and won’t be injured. She may also climb onto the stick and can be moved to a more convenient place, like a porch frame or tree branch. This is how I move Cellar Spiders that need to get away from intolerant humans. ;( Twist the web into a strand and leave it. She’ll probably eat it like a big piece of spaghetti. She’ll build a new web, they need to do it often anyhow… Read more »