This from Jon Traunfeld (UMD) and Grow It Eat It Network News:
Those spiders in your garden, the big black and yellow ones that a lot of people are afraid of, are fabulous additions to the whole program. They are actually fairly friendly (I’m able to reach around them quite close to pick my tomatoes when they have woven a huge web between cages, and they seem to understand that I am not wanting to harm them or their webs, so they simply stay there and watch.).
Below is visual proof of one reason to make sure you leave them. Check out the video of the orb weaver spider wrapping up a stink bug.
And that’s a wrap! Watch a beautiful orb weaver spider, Argiope aurantia, wrap up a stink bug for a snack. Thanks to Audra Russell for taking this video with her phone and sharing it… |
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