Mid-Atlantic Gardening: What's bugging you, Mid Atlantic? summer 2014, 1 by donnerville

donnerville wrote:
It was a warm day yesterday. Loads of stink bugs were on the window trying to get inside. I sprayed them with Clorox, the most lethal thing I had. So now the bugs are either dead or very clean.

This colorful spider was building a web not far from the back entrance. It was rather big. The belly (whatever the scientific term is) was about 1/3 of an inch. I never thought that we had something so exotic looking in our region. It looked like that it really belonged to the tropics.

Normally something like this would totally freak me out, but in this case it might catch a few stink bugs :o).