Things that make your skin crawl...

Just when I thought we (out here, west of the Rockies) had a monopoly on BIG creepy spiders...



My sister and her husband, who live in Ohio, discovered THIS living in their flower garden. I did a google search for "yellow and black spiders" and discovered its scientific name is: Argiope aurantia Lucas Its body alone is at least an inch long!!!!!



I'll just call it a big-ugly-icky-yellow-spider, and hope that it stays EAST of the Rocky Mountains... Thank-you VERY much!