“That’s a sewing spider”, one of the Amish boys in my classroom told me. Then he told another boy, “It can sew your fingers together!” I think an older brother has been telling some tall tales.
These large docile 0rb weaving spiders commonly answer to plain ol’ garden spider or black and yellow Orb Weaver. But I was curious about the sewing-spider tag. They weave a zig zag pattern into their webs and therefor have earned a nickname of “sewing machine spider”.
Sewing Machine Spider
Black and Yellow Orb Weaver
the Ordinary Hiker 
Just in time for Halloween! Great shots.
Thank you. They definitely fit Halloween!
Great designs of God.
We see His wisdom on display 🙂
FabUlous!
I knew you’d like that one Pete!
Love these shots of one of my favorite spiders. 🙂
Thank you. I agree, they are special. And they show up at the most unlikely places!
I have never heard them called Sewing Machine spiders, but it fits. It’s the only spider that I enjoy watching. LOL
In the right place I think all of creation is to be enjoyed, and named with a bit of fun at times.
Lovely shots of an inspirational spider species – their web construction are magnificent creations. I hadn’t heard their nickname ‘sewing machine’ spider – very apt. I learned the term for that zigzag pattern through a blogger living in Japan who is drawn to web styles – as ‘stabilimentum’ or ‘stabilimenta’ (pl). We get the golden orb species here in the Cape and their webs are like cast nets – huge! Here’s an interesting link – http://www.bugsinthenews.com/stabilimentum_and_some_notions_on%20function.htm
Quite fascinating! Thank you 🙂
Interesting info. Thanks for sharing.