tomatofreak Thats Ascaryious pronounced A-Scary-ious.lol We have hundreds of lizards that eat insects for us. My wife kills all spiders. She fears them and hates them with a passion. We call her The Spider Hunter.

I have seen the baby spiders hatch out and fly off into the great big world. In spring, one a warm sunny day when their is a nice breeze blowing, if you are lucky, you can see them hatch out all at once. There are hundreds, if not thousands of t-tintsy spiders, hardly more than a speck of dust to the naked eye. They shoot out thousands of silken threads and ride off on them in the wind. Birds and frogs gobble them up, but some live and grow and the next year, in late summer you will see them again in your garden - giants by comparison. ogrose, I have quite literally, but certainly by accident, stuck my head into their webs while gardening many times. The spider just scoots over and waits for me to exit. Never had one become aggressive with me. My children used to love them, giving them names. They were greatly influenced by Charlotte's Web. I always taught them to be curious about Nature, but cautious. Look but don't touch. Study it, observe and learn from other creatures. Of course, they often DID touch. :)

Sounds like one of the many crab spiders also known as flower spiders. They come in an assortment of colors, and often seem to mimic the color of the flower they are on. I've seen yellow, pink, and white ones. These spiders lay in wait for anything that comes to visit the flower. Bees and other pollinators are their primary targets, of course. Here is a link that might be useful: Click on this site for a comparison.

One of the many members of the largest group of spiders, Araneus, perhaps Araneus marmoreus. Check out the top image in this linked website. That's the top of her, by the way, not the underside.