monoloco - 2-27-2013 at 07:34 AM
Whale-ista - 2-27-2013 at 08:12 AM
Beautiful! Great photo and subject.
We have big spiders here in San Diego but not so colorful. And they are active at night so difficult to photograph.
Where was this taken?
monoloco - 2-27-2013 at 08:33 AM
He/she has a web between a pitaya dulce and an agave plant in my back yard.
BajaBlanca - 2-27-2013 at 08:57 AM
wow, gorgeous representative of spiders.
tehag - 2-27-2013 at 04:56 PM
I think that's an argiope (probably silver). They are common in and around San Diego as well as here in Baja.
DENNIS - 2-27-2013 at 05:03 PM
WOW...spectacular designs. Something that beautiful must be poisonous.
monoloco - 2-27-2013 at 05:12 PM
So far it has been a very well behaved mascota, I've never seen it stray from the web.
woody with a view - 2-27-2013 at 06:37 PM
it's called a zig zag spider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia they get bigger than a tangerine around my house.
Floatflyer - 2-27-2013 at 07:32 PM
What kind of repellant do you plan on using? Flyswatter? Wasp spray? Shovel? Professional exterminator?
Just kidding, my wife makes me walk around MOST spider webs. She won't spray our palapa roof so as not to harm the geckos. Living with nature is a
challenge, more so for some. We had a juvenile tarantula spending a few days under our computer table. We did keep an eye on it, didn't want to step
on it and didn't particularly want it to climb a leg.
ecomujeres - 2-27-2013 at 07:40 PM
Hey, fantastic photo! Does the other (top) side look like this?
ArgiopeSpider02_VizcainoDes sm
This Silver Argiope girl wasn't in her web because I walked right into it while traipsing through the desert about 4 years ago between Vizcaino and
San Ignacio in November and knocked her onto the ground. She had had her web stretched between two very low saltbushes (Atriplex) just like about a
hundred (or millions?!!) of her neighbors! I kid you not. About every 5th and 6th shrub had a web for as far as I could see. After taking some
photos, not as nice as yours, I resumed my plant mission with a great deal more care as to where I walked!!
monoloco - 2-28-2013 at 05:54 PM
Here's a photo of her from the top:
Thanks for all the ID info.
David K - 2-28-2013 at 06:01 PM
Very cool! Thank you!!