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Black and Yellow Garden Spider
 Argiope aurantia		  


Photo ©Patricia McQuade

Insects get stuck in the webs of spiders, so why doesn’t this Garden Spider get stuck in her own web? Because she knows which threads of the web are sticky, so she can avoid them. The radial threads (like the spokes of a bicycle wheel) are not sticky. The threads that make up the circles in the web are sticky.

Each night this spider eats her web and recycles it into an entirely new web for the next day. Using this large web, the spider will often catch and eat insects twice her own size.

Earth Cards
Nature Trading Cards

What are Earth Cards?

Trading cards?  Flash cards?  Game cards? Animal cards? Earth cards are all of these.

  • Collect them like baseball cards.
  • Play games with them like a game deck.
  • Use them as flash cards and species cards for learning. 
  • Trade them with your friends.

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Nature Trading Cards

Box of 35 cards          $5.00
Box of 65 cards        $10.00
Box of 100 cards       $15.00

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You can customize your box of cards. Just go to Choose your cards and pick the species you want included.  
A box of Nature Trading Cards would be a nice gift for your child's classroom. You can also order them in quantities, at special prices, to use as fundraisers for your school. Schools