Comments on: A Mississippi Garden Spider

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:11:35 +0000

We live in Tupelo MS. We have one that has built a web on our 4-wheeler. The last couple of days the kids have been throwing stink bugs from the garder into its web. It is neat to watch the spider spin the bug with its legs while spinning a web around its prey. Then, i guess, injecting it with venom or something to kill it. In a day or so he will move the bug to the center of the web and devour it. The kids love it.

By: Cathy Pope

Cathy Pope — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:29:12 +0000

I was born in Mississippi and remember seeing one of these spiders when I was a kid. I believe I was 9 years old and saw it on its web hanging between two trees in the backcountry and it was as big as my older sister’s hand. We lived in Petal just east of Hattiesburg across the Leaf River and I am pretty sure that we saw these around our house as well. My children have now become interested in spiders as we see them quite often although I wish we didn’t. Thanks for the information. I couldnt’ for the life of me find what this spider was called.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:43:26 +0000

These are the most facinating spiders to watch. I had one who’d built her web next to my utility box on the side of the house. During the day she’d barely move in her web, but at night I believe she was quite active. One day while cutting grass her web got sprayed with clippings and was quite a mess. By the next morning she had cut out all the grass and had a perfectly clean web. No holes or anything left behind. She remained there for a couple of months.

By: J. Cricket Walker

J. Cricket Walker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:07:11 +0000

Although anything is possible, I have never heard of these spiders being harmful. They tend to be way more afraid of us than were are of them.:)

By: DeDe Linzy

DeDe Linzy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:30:19 +0000

hi was wondering if this spider was at all harmful. I was with my cousin in the woods and we seen a spider on a web. It was yellow and black and it looked like it had eyes in its back. I am not quite sure if it is the same spider and i did not have a camera the only thing i had was a camera phone and since i was afraid to get to close i could not get a picture where you could see it. Next time I am going to bring a camera. Hopefully it will still be there.