This puppy has a set of pincers and is building a web that looks like a rope.

Garden spider!

Orb Weaver I believe.

Used to see them all the time while walking beans

Any good with pepper and garlic on them ??

Orb Weaver. They are quite tame and can be handled without much fear of getting bit. We used to catch them in the tallgrass prairie areas and relocate them to our yard when I was a kid. Wasted lots of time catching big ol' grasshoppers in the cornfield to feed to them LOL.

In hindsight, none of the habitat we relocated them to was suitable which probably explains why we never saw recruitment year to year in the yard.

Yep, always liked. How they bounce the web back and forth, evidently to threaten you! Cool spider. I used to feed them grasshoppers too!

My Mom used to call them "writing" spiders, If he writes your name in the web look out!

Cedar Hacker- Check the below link for a very comprehensive discussion about the Yellow Garden Spider in Texas
REFERENCE: Male and Female Yellow garden spiders in Texas- http://bugsinthenews.info/araneinae...as-1833-male-joy-r-san-antonio-tx-2010/.

This is a picture of one that made a web on my 4-wheeler several years ago. It includes both a female and male garden spider on the web.

That "rope" is to attract insects, iirc

Yep they are the ones that I would walk into their webs and do 6 weeks of cardio in 3 seconds

Well that booger is definitely lost as there isn't a garden within 5 miles of me and hasn't been in 15 years. I have never seen one here. I guess it could have come in on coastal bermuda or alfalfa hay ?

North Carolina Writin' Spider. "Don't let it see you smile. If it sees your teeth, you'll die." Fortunately for a significant number of North Carolinians, "seeing teeth" is not a threat whatsoever.

it would be a died one at our house

I had one of those giant, nasty suckers on me about 15 years ago. I almost killed my self try to get it off. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. I can’t put in words how bad it was.

Anachraphoebia.....prolly spelled that wrong! Humans arn't on their grocery list!

If you walk around here after dark this time of year, you'll walk through their webs under every tree branch. It makes you dance a little trying to figure where the spider ended up. They take down their webs before sunrise.

This writing spider was in my garden a few years back. It wrote LUAW. I asked some of my FB friends what they thought it meant. Someone said, " Love U Always Wilbur." (from the movie "Charlotte's Web") lol

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