I had to read your last line twice...I thought the dog was starting to shrivel....too much sun today I think.

My dog finally stopped his horticultural adventures when he bit into a ripe tomato on a neighbor's plant. (Looked like his throat was cut). He got a cold hose shower and was barricaded on the porch until I gathered the clean up supplies. Since then he's been a bit more circumspect about the plants.

It will be these lovely chosen ones.

And don't get me wrong, spiders are my favorite bug, never mind holding them (or bringing them inside when I was a kid, and released them in my room, just to wake up and see where they made their web..mom didn't like it though).......


BUT considering I am raising butterflies this year, they will be roadblocks for sure.

Nice spiders. Is the Shamrock Spider an orb weaver like the Argiope aurantia?

Nice spiders! Here is one of my orb weavers. They come spin their neat webs every summer.

Moonhowl said:Nice spiders. Is the Shamrock Spider an orb weaver like the Argiope aurantia?

It is an orb weaver.
Yes, all orb weavers remake webs dailyyyyyy.

I won't kill them, just relocate them. The best I can.
in fact I encourage you all to try to, AND OR. Tip a bo sideways in your garden. Where beneficial insects don't go to, in time you'll have your own spider security.

funny story actually. As kids we would grab webbed branches and make almost a cotton candy ball of webs, and when the gnats would bug us..... a few swipes and it catches a TON. Try it, the spiders benefit too 😂😂😁

During this time of the year, grasshopper is my enemy: my amaryllis is its favorite by far to devour. Hoping the other predators catches it or gets caught in the many spider webs here.
When it is wet season, those lurking snails and slugs are my enemies..but it is dry time now, so the grasshopper takes the throne of peskiness here.

Not to worry Brenden. The only spiders around here that meet an early demise are the Black or Brown Widows and the Brown Recluse. We tend to be rather protective of spiders, walking sticks, Mantids and strangely, their predators, frogs, toads, lizards and gekkos.

I will admit though that I will never get used to walking into one of the Argiope's webs spanning the drive way at night.

We leave our spiders alone unless they need relocating. The only ones we kill are the Black Widows. I keep finding them in my greenhouse.

Not too many years ago we had a lot of the black and yellow spiders in the garden... and now, since the very bad winter of 2013/2014, they have gone missing (along with a number of other insects). I hope to have them back someday soon!

All this talk about spiders and walking into webs...
Does anyone remember the wrestlers called "The Bushwackers"? That's what I look like when I am waking my dogs in the yard, waving a stick in front of me like the Bushwackers to knock down any webs that would otherwise end up in my face.

The neighbor has not been bothering me lately--now I have a bunny eating my tall lily stems and the buds too. I can never win!

There is nothing quite as startling as thinking you dodged a web, and walking inside to hear "Hang on, you have a huge spider in your hair."

I do hate that part about the spiders... I'm constantly walking into the webs that are strung between my tomato cages, bean trellis, tree branches, and so on .

Spiderwebs?

These look better close-up. Kind of be-jeweled with dew.

All of our orb weavers seem to have disappeared .

Still seem to have plenty of spiders making webs for me to get hit in the face with, though .

Weedwhacker said:All of our orb weavers seem to have disappeared .

Still seem to have plenty of spiders making webs for me to get hit in the face with, though .

Odd, I know...sad as well

@Sandymaex - We do have rabbits and they have eaten many of the hosta plantaginea but, so far, they've left the liles alone. Deer got other lilies in unprotected gardens.

I got my garden in the back being infested with chip munks, I got holes all around my fresh planted plants! I am going to try my dog urine trick first, the fencing if needed. Not going to kill something that is living in the environment before I was even born. Wrong at every level.

Hi All, I used some chicken wire --and a stake and the bunny let the last lily alone. I hope he goes some wnere else. I can't even grow beans around here--the bunny and all of his kin ate my beans last year. I don't grow beans anymore! That's ok though--I prefer daylilies!