This week is a collection of photos taken of a Golden Silk Orb Weaver Spider. According to Wanda Taylor, "It spins a beautiful golden silk web and is very strong. Strong enough to roll up like a spool of thread." Mrs. Taylor continues to say that, "This is the first year since I have lived on the Southeast coast of North Carolina, that I have seen this type of spider. I myself don't like spiders but I just had to take pictures of this one." She adds, "There are so many of them we have been a little afraid to walk under the trees in our back yard." Mrs. Taylor says, "she just had to share this beautiful creature with others back home."

Submitted By: 
Wanda Gay McNutt Taylor
Wilmington, NC

(Note from the webmistress: If you read the online version of the Mountaineer each week, then you have seen that I have been publishing more than one photo at a time for Photo of the Week. This is due to you, the reader, sending in series of photos. I have not had the heart to not publish such wonderful pictures. I will continue to do so, however I will start to combine the photos into one image. You won't notice it, unless you print them out, or try to enlarge them.
Thank you, Webmistress.)