Please look up the Yellow Garden Spider , better know as the "ARGIOPE AURANTIA". Look at it and compare it to your spider and see if you have a match, good luck!!!
I had the same question, and the best answer I found was phidippus audax - bold jumping spider. See link below Search for phidippus audax and see if you can find a picture that looks like yours.
Could be the Black and yellow garden spider.
St Andrews Cross Spiders are black with two yellow lines on its back. These spiders are web weavers. They are a low risk to humans and display non-aggressive behavior.
St Andrews Cross Spiders are black with two yellow lines on its back. These spiders are web weavers. They are a low risk to humans and display non-aggressive behavior.
Probably something to avoid!
The type of spider you want to stay away from.
That is a garden spider
black spider with 2 yellow dots on its under side
a little spider black legs and yellow back with black spots
male black widow
Banana spider
black hairy with white dots on its back
The spider with a light yellow spiked shell and black dots is the star spider. The star spider is commonly found is the Southern parts of the United States and Central America.
There are a number of different spiders that could be described as black spiders with a red dot on their back including the Black Widow, the Australian Redback spider and the Jumping Spider.
It sounds like the buck moth. They are black with yellow dots all along their body. The dots are in twos down their back.
The description matches that of a Marbled Orb Weaver spider, scientific name Araneus marmoreus. This species is commonly found in North Carolina, USA. It has a yellow body with black dots and black stripes on its legs.
A ladybird spider is a spider whose red body has four black dots.Specifically, the spider in question can be found natively in Greece. It carries the scientific names Eresus cinnaberinus and E. sandaliatus. It has white-striped black legs. Its fused head and thorax (prosoma) is black. Its abdomen-like rear (opisthosoma) is red, with 4 black dots.