Argiope aurantia Lucas, 1833 Discussion
yellow garden spider
Comments on August 18, 2007 Observation
Jean Leclerc
46.1576, -72.4709
4
40 
Submitted: August 22, 2007 at 8:07:08 AM MST
Observed a large concentration of individuals more than 40 females on their webs alongside a rural road ditch. About half of them had prey (mainly grasshopers, some monarch butterflies). Many were visibly gravid. Also observed, on 2 different occasions, 2 males courting a female on her web. Habitat was mainly grasses, Salix sp. and Asclepias. A corn field was on side of the ditch.
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