2012 Photograph, Black and Yellow Argiope, Yellow Garden Spider, Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Golden Garden Spider, Writing Spider, Zigzag Spider, Corn Spider, or McKinley Spider (Argiope aurantia, Orb-weaver Spider Family Araneidae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
This spider has caught a grasshopper and has almost finished wrapping it in a silk coccoon. You can see silk strands being fed out of the spider's spinneretts. |
