…Charlotte!
Well, that’s what Kay calls her. Making her home in our greenhouse, among the lisianthus stems, she’s been preparing to lay her eggs for the season. Gorging on unsuspecting garden pests, Charlotte is actually quite beneficial to the gardener…helping to control beetles, mosquitos, and flies. Not to mention the odd, unfortunate grasshopper.
Charlotte is a yellow garden spider. Although that seems like such an inadequate name for this impressive beauty. She is sometimes referred to as a McKinley spider, because some have reckoned that the unique pattern of her web design resembles the signature of former President McKinley. Kudos to whoever got close enough to figure that out.
For sure, though, that’s a web design that no autopen can replicate!