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Argiope aurantia, Black and Yellow Garden Spider
Eggs were laid about 2.5 weeks later. She is still on web 8/26/2025.
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- Submitted: Aug 26, 2025
- Photographed: Aug 4, 2025
- Spider: Argiope aurantia (Black and Yellow Garden Spider)
- Location: Lacey’s Spring, Alabama, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Oct 4, 2025
Oct 4, 2025
Duncanville, 
Beautiful photo! I love these spiders so much.
Thank you. I just joined. I don’t know how to edit and fill in the identification. I put it into the comments, but cannot seem to put it into the proper box.
I might be mistaken, but I think only staff can do that.
You’re correct. Only I do it because I have the access that stuff. Kyle, our Administrator, also has access, but he’s busy fighting trolls and recreating the site into a new format. His goal is to eventually have multiple Moderators with different abilities and site users will be able to edit their own contributions. He is working on a computer vision program to identify spiders that could do automatic tentative IDs of some species. Humans will make the final decisions for IDs. He’s bringing in pre-created taxonomy chart info. Right now newly added spider species ( via first submitted sightings)… Read more »
Deleted attempt.