Cool, thanks. Although she’s 23 years dead by now, it’s good to have correctly placed her. I’m not a spider guy, as a rule, but aside from Portia (and, really, who doesn’t love Portia) she was my favorite spider. So beautiful, and we used to say she was elegant because it looked like she was wearing black, long-sleeved gloves as if for a dinner party.
Hah! I’m fortunate to not really be much of an anything guy, which seems to have the advantage that I get to have favorites. I’m in [email protected] which I enjoy immensely, and I love the photos, but I’m not really an owl guy so to speak, so I have my 2 favorites. Same with spiders. And dogs. I guess I am a cat guy, but while I love all cats I still prefer certain breeds. Maybe I just have an inclination to bias.
Those were taken with my Canon 10D. I’ve always stuck with SLR interchangeable lens cameras, so for any given time period my picture quality gives me a technology edge. I didn’t really switch from film to digital until IL SLRs were available. Anyway, thanks for the compliment. I have several more of her, but I figured those were enough for an ID.
And no kidding - that’s one of our lady’s cousins, right on the cover!
Yep, that’s definitely Argiope aurantia. It has quite a lot of common names, including “golden garden spider” … and it is an orb-weaver.
However it is not a “golden orb-weaver” which is the common name for the genera Nephila and Trichonephila.
Yep, they are called “stabilimenta” and we don’t really know what they do. Very common in Argiope spp.
Cool, thanks. Although she’s 23 years dead by now, it’s good to have correctly placed her. I’m not a spider guy, as a rule, but aside from Portia (and, really, who doesn’t love Portia) she was my favorite spider. So beautiful, and we used to say she was elegant because it looked like she was wearing black, long-sleeved gloves as if for a dinner party.
Portia is amazing! I am a spider guy, but I don’t really have a favourite one. There are too many awesome ones.
Also, those are amazing pictures for 2004!
This species is actually the title picture of my US field guide! A very good book!
Hah! I’m fortunate to not really be much of an anything guy, which seems to have the advantage that I get to have favorites. I’m in [email protected] which I enjoy immensely, and I love the photos, but I’m not really an owl guy so to speak, so I have my 2 favorites. Same with spiders. And dogs. I guess I am a cat guy, but while I love all cats I still prefer certain breeds. Maybe I just have an inclination to bias.
Those were taken with my Canon 10D. I’ve always stuck with SLR interchangeable lens cameras, so for any given time period my picture quality gives me a technology edge. I didn’t really switch from film to digital until IL SLRs were available. Anyway, thanks for the compliment. I have several more of her, but I figured those were enough for an ID.
And no kidding - that’s one of our lady’s cousins, right on the cover!