Talk about a hodge podge (1 Viewer)

All these within inches of each other. Any I.D.s would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to post a different angle of the center spider in the next post down.

Here's a better view of the center spider? 8 legs = arachnid right?
This particular one is 2 and 1/2 inches at its longest point. Yup, I measured it.

I'm editing this cause I found out it is a run of the mill Black & Yellow Garden Spider. My measurements go from tip of front leg to tip of back leg but evidently it is measured only by the body itself. This must have been a female. I took a profile of her and I guess she is about ready to die according to what I am pasting below.

"Life Cycle Female fills spherical egg sac, up to 1" (25 mm) wide, with tough brown papery cover. Female attaches it to one side of web close to resting position, then dies. Eggs hatch in autumn, young overwinter in sac, then disperse in spring. Male builds web in outlying part of female's web, making a white zigzag band vertically across the middle."

How did the Sphinx make it through the enemy lines?:eat:

Good thing that I have fishing to fall back on! You guys all make my hours behind a camera look worthless!

If any of you want to go one-on-one with a fishing pole I'm ready for ya!

Mark goes in search of a Web site where he belongs.

EXCEPTIONAL!!!

Mark

Hey, I like fly fishing almost as much as I like the birds and bugs.

Two males and a female-- what are they called? Garden Weaver? (something like that) and yes a diurnal sphinx moth-- Hummingbird Sphinx? We have a very similar looking species here.