At the entrance to Ravenna Park I saw this miraculous spiderweb. The web is what you might consider a traditional web, very circular. I took a picture where you can start to see the spider and bits of the web, but it was difficult to get a picture of the web or for my camera to focus on the spider. The spider is in the middle of the web.
Female (large) and male (small) Silver Garden Spiders (Argiope argentata) from near Cotulla, Texas
The orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. Their common name is taken from the round shape of this typical web. Orb-weavers have eight similar eyes, legs hairy or spiny and no stridulating organs. The family is cosmopolitan, including many well-known large or brightly colored garden spiders. There are more than 2,800 species in over 160 genera worldwide, making this the third largest family of...
