Originally Posted by
raedar63
These are no joke. I live on a farm and we have them all over. They make the webs just as shown. We called them corn spiders I do not know what the correct name is. I have seen these spiders get as big a round as your palm.
We have these same spiders in Texas too and I have always heard them called "garden" spiders. And do they get big! They catch lots of insects and I have never had one come into the house. I've seen the zig-zag design in their webs too, and just always thought of it as a repair after a large insect had been caught.