Spiders [Argiope Aurantia] Update

The saga of my three spiders continues. [By the way, locally they are called Banana Spiders.]

Uno is gone and has never returned.

Dos, well, as of this morning she may be leaving too.

I wasn’t greeted with her happy face as usual. [They smile even though they spend most of their life hanging upside down working hard, which you’d think would induce a major migraine but apparently not.]

Just now walking outside I found her about three feet from the ground attached webless to the side of the building. No web is on the window glass either, which is always where she hangs out.

Perhaps she is leaving home for her final exit?

But wait! Thanks to a question from Johnnie at Expression’s Coffee & Art in Round Top, sleuthing shows that Argiope “….in warmer climates they may live longer than a year.”[*]

We’ll have to wait and see what happens.

I hate goodbyes.

In the meantime two images of Dos document her latest activities: producing a rare, fourth seed sack [cover image] and sunning herself yesterday afternoon: a daily ritual.

And finally, Tres just does her thing and stays with web at the south side of the building now with two, but meagre looking, egg cases.

 

[*Thanks to: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Argiope_aurantia/ ]