The theme of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is QUEST.
I found this Writing Spider (Argiope aurantia) in my garden today on a quest to capture lunch in my gardenias.
Weekly Photo Challenge: QUEST
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A Walk in the Garden 
I’m hate spiders, but how fascinating and beautiful. How big is it?
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It is about 2 1/4 inches, tip to tip.
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Yikes!!
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I take it he writes for the web? That’s one author I’ll give a miss. Great shot, though.
*interestedly* You eat gardenias?
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Very well said. I haven’t tried to eat gardenias…is that something you do?
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No, but I wondered if capturing lunch in them meant they were on the menu, or possibly resident snails!
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As far as I see, they are after insects.
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Beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you, Tom. These spiders are fairly common in my garden each year. I haven’t seen one this big before.
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That is a very menacing spider. Great photo.
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Thanks. It’s one of the largest I’ve seen in my garden.
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What a beaut!! 😉
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It is striking, isn’t it?
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She. She is striking. Only female spiders spin webs. Males drag a strand everywhere they go, but they don’t spin webs. (The first home-schooling unit I did with my son — then age 6 — was about spiders to help him overcome his fear of them.)
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Thanks, Sue, for the background. Glad to have you aboard.
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You’re welcome. And thanks for the welcome! 😉
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Oh, the SPIDERS are capturing lunch in the gardenias? I thought you said YOU were on a quest to do that when you found the spider. (That’s what you said! 🙂 )
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English is surely a funny language. I’m glad we got all that cleared up.
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Silly though it may seem, I originally read it in that light and only looked for the more logical meaning when I realised we weren’t exactly on the same wavelength!
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Whoa, now that is a serious spider! Great catch.
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Thanks, Jason. They are fairly common in my garden.
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Wow, what a close up shot! Great details. 🙂
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Thank you, Amy.
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Obviously more comfortable getting up close and personal with the spiders than me…measuring tip-to-tip! Great shot…especially the lighting on the web..As Charlotte once wrote: Terrific
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Thank you, Liz. This critter has been in the same spot for a week or more. Must be good hunting.
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Yikes!
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Awesome capture!
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Thanks. It just stays in one place.
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I saw a large neon yellow color spider in Hawaii once nd my reaction was some fear and also some excitement at how beautiful it was. This reminds me of that spider experience!
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I hope the picture brought back the excitement part.
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