Wildlife Gardening: Questions about outside spider, 1 by indirt

indirt wrote:
It is an orb weaver of some kind. They are very helpful in catching mosquitoes and moths. They are pretty awesome at webmaking and can have support lines between trees that are far apart for a web in the middle. They also learn where not to put support lines because it is high traffic (like the gate) and will adjust their next web in same general area, but support lines will not be in the way of the gate anymore. I had one that made her web across my doorway, but moved it to be perpendicular to the door so I didn\'t have to run into it.

Some kinds of wolf spiders and definitely jumping spiders are daytime hunters no matter how big they are. Perhaps their favorite food is available only during the day. This is a photo of a green lynx spider that caught a wasp - usually, I see wasps eat green lynx spiders! She was probably eating my butterflies, too.