Spider ID Request

[Eben]

Good day Everyone!

These guys are setting up home above my fish ponds.

What are they?

Thank you.

[Andrew Leigh]

Looks like a juvenile Orb Spider or a Vlei Spider. Not enough detail.

[Pjansen83]

According to an app I have (Picture insect) itvis a Common stretch spider. A species of Long jawed orb weavers - Tetragnathidae

[Eben]

Thank you!

This is exactly how these guys sit in their webs.

I'm not a pyagra monster, but I'm also not keep on these guys building their webs over my fish ponds. Their numbers are increasing and it's becoming difficult to feed my fish without ending up entangled in their massive webs.

Short of the obvious tin of doom, how can I motivate these guys to rather find another home?

[Pjansen83]

They are there because of a food source. I assume you have fish in the ponds? The fish should control most insects. Move them somewhere else, and clear the webs completely. It worked in my garden with large golden orbs.

[WayneMan]

Please dont kill them - rather pick them up and move them elsewhere, but its not necessary to kill them.