Lampshade weaver
I got out of our car to inspect a random cliff face in Roan Mountain State Park, Tennessee, USA, in the hopes of finding exactly this spider: a lampshade weave, Hypochilus pococki. These spiders form loose colonies in appropriate habitat, spinning a collar-like web around themselves that extends roughly two inches or so from the cliff wall. These are not small arachnids, a tad larger than the average cellar spider. November 2, 2018.
Lampshade weaver
I got out of our car to inspect a random cliff face in Roan Mountain State Park, Tennessee, USA, in the hopes of finding exactly this spider: a lampshade weave, Hypochilus pococki. These spiders form loose colonies in appropriate habitat, spinning a collar-like web around themselves that extends roughly two inches or so from the cliff wall. These are not small arachnids, a tad larger than the average cellar spider. November 2, 2018.