Thanks again everyone. If (or more likely when) I see another in my garden I will definitely post a picture. I have been dealing with these spiders for 12 years now, ever since we built our house in what was formerly farm land. We have our home and surrounding area sprayed regularly every 3 months to control for them but my garden is not in an area that is sprayed for obvious reasons. We have taken efforts to remove their habitat by getting rid of bricks, etc., that were used for landscaping and made lovely little homes for them but I don't know that we will ever be completely free of them. I don't scare easily but these things terrify me. I always wear gloves but now I am afraid to even work in there! Thank you for all of the suggestions. By the way, I called my pest control guy and asked for his opinion and he told me to spray liquid sevin dust every day until I don't see anymore. Scary much? :)

I'm in Central Florida also. The monarchs I raise I do it a bit unconventional. I don't plant the plant, rather I plant the pot that it is in. I keep 3 one gallon milkweed plants per hole. When one has good cats on it, I take it in the screened porch or netting. Put out a plant that has been waiting to get in the ground. Sounds pricey, but I'm saving money rotating these guys. When they gobble up the plant, I cut the stalk in half and it has about 2-3 weeks to rehab into a nice bushy plant again. Started doing this after I had a bad batch all die on me. So from now on I'm confident that if I have a bad batch it will be confined to one plant. Just my $.02 . I also use something called a Waspinator. It is supposed to mimic a hornets nest and scare the wasps away. I'm surprised at the number of wasps that have left. I do still see some, but much less than before. I see spiders, but they don't really put a dent in anything.

I am looking to set up some spring trades over the long boring winter where I can't garden here in zone 5. TO TRADE: I have collections of sedums (15 kinds), hens and chicks (25 kinds), mints (10 kinds), TONS OF IRISES and some other flowers to offer. Most of my daylilies are new so most will not be up for dividing this year. Some will but I won't really be able to tell which until spring so I hoping to mostly trade other plants for daylilies. BUT I LOVE REPEAT HONEST TRADERS - and will keep track of them!!! I am looking for spiders, unsual forms, very unusal colors, and some ruffled edges. I prefer to NOT add any more yellows or oranges to my garden but there is always an exception. Would realy like Hot Chocolate daylily. Email me if you are intersted at myohhmy@comcast.net might want to put daylilies in headers so I don't accidently delete them. THANKS!!!

You are right. The link didn't work. It's the first time I've tried doing the "link" thingy on houzz. Will try again with the AHS registration information on Clements "It's Afraid Of Spiders....Maryl http://www.daylilies.org/DaylilyDB/detail.php?id=173857&name=It's%20Afraid%20of%20Spiders