Backyard Spiders

Due partly to their round flat webs araneidae species possibly rank as the world s most easily identified spiders.

Backyard spiders. Many of these spiders may also wander into homes crawl spaces and garages in search of prey mates or a place to lay their eggs. This is the garden spider sometimes known as the black and yellow argiope argiope aurantia. The garden wolf spider is the most common wolf spider in australia and lives in open woodlands and suburban backyards. There are several different ways you can see these buddies.

The spiders on this page are a few of the spiders that are commonly found in gardens and yards around portland oregon. The australian spider identification location chart may be easy to indentify a spider by the location where you found it. Garden spider araneus diadematus also called cross spider a member of the orb weaver family araneidae order araneida characterized by white marks arranged in the form of a cross on the abdomen a fairly common species the garden spider occurs throughout the northern hemisphere and is often found in grassy areas and gardens where it builds an orb shaped web on low shrubs. More than one kid has caught a grasshopper and tossed it into this species web to watch the big spider quickly wrap the grasshopper in a mummy like cocoon of silk then bite through the cocoon and begin sucking out the poor grasshopper s juices.

Wolf spiders are found all over the world but there are several species just found in australia. The spider species argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider black and yellow garden spider golden garden spider writing spider zigzag spider hay spider corn spider or mckinley spider. It is common to the contiguous united states hawaii southern canada mexico and central america. The species was first described by hippolyte lucas in 1833.

It is important to remember that spiders seen in california are not bound by the territorial lines decided on by humans therefore their distribution is subject to change. Despite their size these spiders are actually pretty harmless. Click on a picture or for a thumbnail overview here for an overview of all pictures on this site. To be honest a garden spider is more likely to run away from you than bite.

Easy if you want to identify your spider by photo. How garden spiders live and behave. And if you do get bitten by a garden spider it hurts less than a bee sting. Garden spiders come in all shapes and sizes and when questions about garden spider identification arise most people at least subconsciously think of the family araneidae the orb weaving spiders.

Many of our backyard buddies find their way inside our homes and take up temporary residence and one of the most successful and ever present is the daddy long legs spider.