Comments on: Behavioral Mimicry in the Golden Garden Spider

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:03:41 +0000

The reason the common garden spider S.p. Argiope aurantia
rocks it’s web back in forth is the same reason it is brightly colored (florescent yellow). It wants you to notice it…she see’s your nearing her precious web and doesn’t want to waste the energy building a new web. They are a very large spider and use their size, color and web movements to dissuade terrestrial mammals from destroying their web. I have personally seen whitetail deer avoid large female garden spiders that web over deer paths in prairie. I have also been bit by them it hurts…about like a bee sting. This is probably why the deer avoid them…

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Another Black Widow Where She Shouldn’t Be - biochemicalsoul.com — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:42:08 +0000

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By: Monado in Toronto

Monado in Toronto — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:40:54 +0000

When I see spiders doing that, they usually buzz up to a complete blur. I thought it was to make themselves virtually inivisible to passing predators. Maybe yours was cold?

Nice video.

By: Irradiatus

Irradiatus — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:24:54 +0000

Thanks! FYI: the RSS address recently changed.

By: Kevin Zelnio

Kevin Zelnio — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:14:00 +0000

Nice spider video! This looks like an interesting blog, where have you been hiding?? Linked and RSS’ed!