The garden spider is yellow and black with a large belly. The garden spider is called an orb-weaver. It makes a web in the shape of a circle or orb. Orb means ring or circle.

The garden spider spends most of its life making webs. The web silk is sticky. The silk is also very strong. The web of a garden spider has a zigzag design going across the web. Scientists think that the zigzag design is there to keep birds from flying through the spider's web. People, animals, rain, and wind can also break the spider’s web.

The web looses its stickiness after a day. The garden spider eats the old web. Then it makes a new fresh web. Every day the garden spider makes a new web.

The garden spider has poor eyesight. It relies on its sticky web to catch its prey. The vibrations on the web tell the spider it caught something to eat. If it is something the garden spider does not like, it will drop it from the web.