This Black and Yellow Garden Spider anchored her web to a palm tree at the edge of the big pond at Magnolia Cemetery.
I walked right by it once, then a little breeze ruffled the whole web bringing it to my attention.
The spider was hanging out there on her zig-zag stabilimentum. The mosquitoes were plentiful and I was surprised there weren’t any visible in the web.
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC
August 18, 2024
It is August and the Black and Yellow Garden Spiders are out.
The web was in the scrub at the steep edge of a pond, not very inviting, or safe, for the photographer to get the other side.
However, a did get a different angle of the vegetation growing on the slope for a completely different background look.
A close up of the zig-zag stabilimentum — pretty fascinating.
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
August 10, 2022
A very large spider web stretched across this opening looking out onto a rice field pond.
A couple of what I think are Black and Yellow Garden Spiders can be seen, along with several dragonflies that met their end in the web.
There’s more detail of the catch if you want to zoom in on the spider wrapping his prey.
Further along the dike another large spider had set up shop. I took the photo because I liked the leaf. When I processed the image I was amazed at the number of little items that had been snagged.
I first saw this Black and Yellow Garden Spider on August 16th. I actually noticed the zig-zag stabilimentum first.
His web was hanging out over a pond, suspended between some shrubs and grass.
I passed the same spot about 45 minutes after the first image; it had clouded over changing the look of the water but the spider hadn’t moved.
On September 6th the spider in the same spot, and this time with a dragonfly for lunch.
The last time I visited this location, September 13, the spider was still there. His web was showing some signs of wear, and he had something wrapped up in a sack.
