That dance when a big juicy fly gets caught in your web…
This is Argiope aurantia, the common yellow garden spider with yellow and black abdominal markings and a white cephalothorax. These spiders are quite common across the United States, [[Argiope argentata, the silver argiope, an orb-weaver found from southern California to Florida in the US, all the way down to Argentina]] and this one in particular is from Plate I in the article “Three Common Spiders of Laguna” by Margaret Moles in The 4th Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory (1916), which is digitally available in @biodivlibrary
A Justice department attorney representing the people owed money by
Toys R Us doesn’t believe the bankrupt corporation should pay lavish
bonuses to the same executives who drove the toy store chain into the
ground.
Australia Proportional Representation Society of Australia http://prsa.org.au/ (desperately needs Proportional Representation in the lower house) @GeoffreyHPowell
