Yes it is an Argiope Aurantia, otherwise known as a Black and Yellow Garden Spider. The females will get up to three times larger than a male. The Black and Yellow Garden Spider is harmless to humans, which is a good thing because if you ever see one it can be a very...AGHHH (
that is my scream like a little girl word)...experience. The spider is found all over the country; the picture posted here was taken in Texas. Spiders give me the "creeps", but there is something interesting about them at the same time.
This spider will place its eggs in a sack and they will hatch in the fall, the babies will live in that sack through the winter. In the spring the little ones will make a web string and let the wind carry it off to distant places. Each egg sack that the mother makes will hold up to 1000 baby spiders, the female may make more than one egg sack.
That is a lot of spiders.
For more info check out:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/black_and_yellow_argiope.htm
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