Comments on: golden orb weaver

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:48:30 +0000

We live in N. Utah. I have over 200 tomato plants and have MANY of these beautiful spiders in them. My kids are scared of them but I think they are georgous! They just move over when I am out there picking.

By: Hutch

Hutch — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:57:09 +0000

This beautiful lady moved into my yard next to one of my plants and is getting bigger as winter nears. I tried to post a picture of her. She is quite impressive with her markings. She doesn’t seem to mind that i take pictures so close to her. The zig zag web that she puts in the middle always seem to be the same. I live on a farm with many acres so i hope I can find more Orbs. Need to figure out how to post her pictures.

Hutch

By: Ken V

Ken V — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:50:14 +0000

I have a 3″ girl living in my yard behind the garage. (I’m near Greenville, SC.) Her web is an impressive two feet wide with anchor strands extending ten feet to the roof! I found this page while searching to discover what she is – great info.

By: Kelsie

Kelsie — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:21:16 +0000

I have one on my porch. I live in Charleston, West Virginia in a wooded area. This is the second one I have seen in a few years around my house. I have a picture but I dont know how to post it

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:43:22 +0000

I live in the mountains of Northern VA, near the Shenandoah River and we have at least 4 on the front porch, 2 on the side porch and who knows how many in the front yard. They are Everywhere. However, being so beautiful- I don’t mind. And it is interesting, literally every 1-2 days they get bigger. You can actually watch the progression.

Thanks for the site, although we have them Everywhere, I didn’t know a lot about them.

Joan

By: June

June — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:04:56 +0000

She became our first pet spider so to speak. It was so sad when she died.
We enjoyed watching her make and remake her webs. We fed her big black crickets and beetles.

She got so big. One evening we saw her not moving and thought she was dead. We wiggled the web and she moved. But over the next few days she slowly stopped moving. Then one morning we went out and soon as I opened the door I felt web on my face and followed it and she had moved to a corner of the front door and built a beautiful acorn looking sac. I have pics but don’t know how to post them She was awesome and so is the egg sac.

I miss her!

By: Jesse Zerwas

Jesse Zerwas — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:37:11 +0000

I have lady living in my window seal outside. Shes about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. I catch some crickets and put it in its web. I’m sure she thanks me everytime. When I go around her sometimes, she starts to jump on her web like a trampolin. Feel free to write me back.