Yellow Garden Spider

Common Name and Latin Name
The Common Name and Latin Name are as follows:
Common Name (s): Yellow Garden Spider, Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Writing Spider, Banana Spider or Corn Spider
Latin Name: Argiope aurantia

Yellow Garden Spider identification - what does it look like?
The yellow garden spider has distinctive yellow and black markings on it's abdomen and has a mostly white cephalothrax. Their legs are black with red or yellow bands, with each leg having three claws at the end.

What do the Yellow Garden Spider eat? What is its prey?
These spiders mainly eat:

• Flying insects

• Aphids
• Flies
• Grasshoppers
• Bees
• Wasps, that get trapped the sticky web.

Is the Yellow Garden Spider poisonous?
All types (except Uloboridae) are poisonous! However this spiders bite is not serious for a healthy person, with symptoms such as an itchy swelling that will disappear in 2 to 3 days.

How big is the Yellow Garden Spider?
The size of the Yellow Garden Spider ranges between 5 to 9mm in males and 19 to 28mm in females. 

What is the average life span of the Yellow Garden Spider?
This type of spider lives on average for around 12 months.  

Does the Yellow Garden Spider have good eyesight?
Generally speaking the Yellow Garden Spider has poor eyesight and mainly relies on vibrations.

Facts and Information about the Yellow Garden Spider
Did you know the following facts about the arachnid commonly known as the Yellow Garden Spider?

• Fact One - They breed once a year

• Fact Two - They do not like to live in dense locations
• Fact Three - Unlike most golden orb spiders, the yellow garden spider keeps a clean web
• Fact Four - Females tend to have bigger webs than males
• Fact Five - It is more common to the lower 48 of the United States, Hawaii, southern Canada, Mexico and Central America
• Fact Six - They spin a web with a vertical zigzag pattern in the centre, this is where the female tends to sit, facing down 

Classification of the Yellow Garden Spider
Species of spiders are classified according to shared physical characteristics. Spider taxonomy is the science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms in a hierarchical system. This method of classification helps when a description of 40,000 spiders is required! The organization of living things have seven major categories: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. The classification of the Yellow Garden Spider is as follows:

Kingdom: Animalia
(Kingdom relates to the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia) :

Phylum: Arthropoda
(Phyla are groups of classes. A series of animals or plants genetically connected with shared characteristics. The second biggest grouping in taxonomy. Arthropoda are jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids, crustaceans, insects etc

Class: Arachnida
 

A Class is a taxonomic group containing one or more orders. Arachnid  consist of any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders and scorpions, of the class Arachnida

Order: Araneae
A taxonomic order, within the class Arachnida (spiders)

Subclass:
The Subclass is nother taxonomic category below a class and above an order which helps in the classification process

Family: Araneidae
Another taxonomic category below an order and above a genus which helps in the classification process.

Genus: Argiope
Another taxonomic category below a family and above the level of species which helps in the classification process.

Species: A. aurantia
Specis is a taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.

Spider Exterminators - Pest Control 
Generally speaking, people do not like spiders especially Yellow Garden Spiders and most of all, do not want them in their homes! There are many forms of pest control and ways to exterminate spiders such as Yellow Garden Spiders. There are spider exterminators, services, spider zappers, spider traps, spider repeller, spider catchers, spider traps for the removal and extermination process. Advice is available on subjects such as pest controls, pest prevention, spider catchers, spider exterminators and how to kill spiders like Yellow Garden Spiders. Some people would like to eliminate spiders from there homes completely, this can be very difficult as an open window on a summers day will allow spiders in, even opening your front door when entering and leaving will allow pesky spiders in. It is very easy to get rid of Yellow Garden Spiders by catching them yourself. Its best not to kill spiders as they are very important in controlling the level of other insects that are pests.