Comments on: Garden spider: A welcome friend or a scary foe? https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/ Cultivating curiosity and confidence Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:42:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 By: Ellen Cantarow https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-139539 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:26:57 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-139539 Andrew Epp. When I was a little girl I somehow developed Arachnophobia. I have spent my entire life (I am now 81!) trying to rid myself of this preposterous fear. It's gotten so that I can approach spiders in their webs up pretty close. I shudder to have them on me, however. How I wish I were like my great-granddaughter who LOVES spiders, all of them. I know they are among Earth's most valuable and useful animals. I live in a New York City apartment building with ample garden spaces. I doubt that other co-op owners would take to my ordering spiders for the garden, however. But I'll ask at a co-op meeting. I ENVY you your love and devotion to Charlotte!]]> In reply to Andrew Epp.

When I was a little girl I somehow developed Arachnophobia. I have spent my entire life (I am now 81!) trying to rid myself of this preposterous fear. It’s gotten so that I can approach spiders in their webs up pretty close. I shudder to have them on me, however. How I wish I were like my great-granddaughter who LOVES spiders, all of them. I know they are among Earth’s most valuable and useful animals. I live in a New York City apartment building with ample garden spaces. I doubt that other co-op owners would take to my ordering spiders for the garden, however. But I’ll ask at a co-op meeting. I ENVY you your love and devotion to Charlotte!

]]> By: Rachel Jarboe https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-89083 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:10:08 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-89083 Andrew Epp. I can relate to all of this!! I got teary eyed reading it!]]> In reply to Andrew Epp.

I can relate to all of this!! I got teary eyed reading it!

]]> By: Rachel Jarboe https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-89082 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:08:30 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-89082 ]]> In 2019 a beautiful spider, Elektra, set up a web a few months on our living room window in the outdoor plants. She laid an egg sac on our window and died on Oct 2. I protected the egg sac without interference all winter in to spring. However, they never came out of the sac. I watched her for hours that fall of 19!!

This year, 2020, we have Elvira. She’s in the exact same place Elektra was. Has anyone had that happen? Anyways, today she created an egg sac on the window just like Elektra in 2019. It’s so tempting to move her to our garage to protect her. But I suppose I should let nature run her course. ❤️

]]> By: Amy Austin https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-88548 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 03:30:18 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-88548 I also have a yellow orb weaver spider, we have named her ophelia, I just love her so much! i have documented almost everything about her including video of her laying her third egg sac. it took her all night to build the sac. I know her behavior before laying a sac and the amount of days in between sacs. i will be extremely sad come first frost. her sacs are on the siding below and above her web. i also noticed that in the rain she has reversed her position to inward. she is getting rotund again so I think she may lay a fourth sac. I am wishing to put a tube or very large pill bottle somewhere by her web in the hopes she will crawl in it to escape the frost, however i don’t want to interfere with nature. I have photos as close as seeing the hairs on her legs, wow she needs to shave, lolol. Ophelia is a beautiful wonderful lady.

]]> By: Denise A Mavis https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-88361 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:42:34 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-88361 we have a HUGE garden spider hanging in the eave over the garage.
there are two round balls at the top of the web. She arrived mid June

]]> By: Adrian Whitehead Pilkilton https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-86562 Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:34:13 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-86562 We have one on our back porch right now. Her name is Gertrude and we have just fallen in love with her. Her web spans the whole length and width of my window so I’m able to watch her from inside and outside. For her first two weeks, she stayed on the back side of her zigzag, but the couple of days she’s been at the outer edges of her web. I don’t see any sacs yet but I also haven’t seen any boyfriends coming around. She is massive though! I would say she’s at least 3 inches in length. She gets bigger everyday. Such a Queen!!

]]> By: Linda Skvarla https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-85980 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:26:27 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-85980 Our little lady garden spider has the most beautiful web I hav ever seen. The zig zag looks as it was done on a sewing machine. Thus we named her Singer after the zig zag sewing machine. Unfortunately, we live near ground zero for spotted lantern flies. So I put a couple in her web and she devoured them!

Her entire family is welcomed here! She won’t go hungry, that is for certain

I will be heartbroken when she passes onto the great web in heaven. She is one of God’s beautiful creatures and hope her children grace our garden.

]]> By: Jessica Walliser https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-84823 Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:11:22 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-84823 Vesta. Sounds like a really cool spider! I hope you were able to find out what kind it is.]]> In reply to Vesta.

Sounds like a really cool spider! I hope you were able to find out what kind it is.

]]> By: Vesta https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-84282 Sun, 23 Aug 2020 05:23:22 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-84282 stuff?).. after the little guy caught it and was wrapping it up, I glanced to my left, and about peed myself! She was less then 5 inches away from my face!! I’ve never seen such a spider before, so I legit almost passed out, lol. She has no web, just one silk string from the edge of the brick to where she’s sitting, face down. I actually ended up here to try to find info on their behavior and different mannerisms, as she’s acting strange. It looks almost like she’s folding herself in half, and she appears to be twisting herself around, lifting her legs in an odd way. It’s really strange. I can’t say exactly what she’s doing though. I’m not getting close to a spider, that’s that big, that’s moving in any way whatsoever. I’m having problems finding any info though. It seems every article is a cut and paste page. I wish I could leave a picture for you, but apparently that’s not a thing here.]]> I currently have a giant female, just hanging out, on my patio. I was tossing a moth into a smaller spiders web.. (because what else is there to do during this 🦠 stuff?).. after the little guy caught it and was wrapping it up, I glanced to my left, and about peed myself! She was less then 5 inches away from my face!! I’ve never seen such a spider before, so I legit almost passed out, lol. She has no web, just one silk string from the edge of the brick to where she’s sitting, face down. I actually ended up here to try to find info on their behavior and different mannerisms, as she’s acting strange. It looks almost like she’s folding herself in half, and she appears to be twisting herself around, lifting her legs in an odd way. It’s really strange. I can’t say exactly what she’s doing though. I’m not getting close to a spider, that’s that big, that’s moving in any way whatsoever. I’m having problems finding any info though. It seems every article is a cut and paste page. I wish I could leave a picture for you, but apparently that’s not a thing here.

]]> By: Jessica Walliser https://farm-kits.com/garden-spider/comment-page-1/#comment-70292 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:36:57 +0000 http://savvygardening.com/?p=5878#comment-70292 Andrew Epp. Love this! Thanks for sharing.]]> In reply to Andrew Epp.

Love this! Thanks for sharing.

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