The Ultimate "Bug Hunter"

I frequently go into my gardens "bug hunting" with my camera. I have a lot of fun and have loved learning about the various bugs I get photos of. I have a friend that helps me out if I get stuck. Because of her identification help over the last several years, that need for identification help happens less and less often. She still looks at almost all, and comments on many, of my garden photos that I post on a private platform.

Today, I came across a yellow garden spider. It's been a couple years since I've had a good one for photographs. Spiders are the ultimate bug hunter. Patient like the orb weavers, or stalking like the jumping spiders, I really like them and work to get my grandkids to like them instead of fear them. After showing the grandkids the actual spider and web, I also brought them to the computer monitor so they could see the spider up close. I hope over time, they'll learn to not fear bugs (except for mosquitoes, they suck).

Here are a couple photos of the Yellow Garden Spider, and two photos of "bugs" it may have been hoping to catch.



Yellow Garden Spider

Yellow Garden Spider

Wasp - Cicada Killer?

Skipper