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The next generation
What we always called Golden Garden Spiders, Bev Wigney of Burning Silo calls, more accurately but less poetically, Black and Yellow Garden Spiders. She has posted a classic photo of such a spider in the center of her web up in Nova Scotia (scroll down).
Down here in Central Kentucky, we had one on the raspberry canes out by the pumphouse but I missed her on Tuesday morning. When I looked around for her, I found her guarding her enormous egg sack under a nearby leaf.
I tried to get a photo but the light was low and she didn’t like my being there and was not about to sit still and pose. My skills aren’t that great either. This is the best shot I got:
You can also see the drought damage on the raspberry leaves. It sprinkled here yesterday afternoon but no real rain.
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