#SandhillsSaturday
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Is #SpiderSaturday a thing? It should be. Here is a Florida orbweaver (Argiope florida) in the Fall Line Sandhills of Taylor County, GA, July 2021. Also, I'm declaring it #SandhillsSaturday.

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In the center of the frame, in the center of a web, the ventral (underside) view of a Florida orbweaver spider (Argiope florida). The spider's abdomen is black with white and pale yellow markings, and her legs are long, thin, and orange-brown with black and pale yellow bands. She has woven some thicker strands into a stabilimentum of zigzag lines (like a series of Z's), five of them radiating from the center of the web (though not extending all the way to the center), forming an X shape. So, an X made of Z's. The spider rests in the center of the X, her legs almost touching the Z's and forming the rest of the X. In the background behind the web is soft focus green and reddish brown.
May 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM