All of my life I have called these banana spiders.
My husband argued that these were zipper spiders and he was right.
“The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider,[2][3]black and yellow garden spider,[4]golden garden spider,[5]writing spider, zigzag spider, hay spider, corn spider, or McKinley spider,” –Wikipedia
None of the names that I found matched what I called banana spiders.
But I do like to keep them around. Females tend to stick around the same area their entire lives. (We have four now that live around us but I don’t know if they are male or female)
They eat their own web at night. I had no idea about that, but it makes sense that they keep such an organized web. I love my Bs. Bertha, Beatrice, Betty and Brenda; because I still call them banana spiders.
For reference, this is a banana spider. They are pretty cool, but not the spider that I have on my porch.
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