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Male Orbweaver

The more I look at this spider the more creeped out I get. Not out of arachnaphobia, but because it's really weird. All the signs point to this being a typical common male Cross Orbweaver, but it only has 6 legs. It's totally symetrical, so it seems unlikely that it lost a couple limbs to a bird. It's also almost as big as the female of the same species in the same area (see next photo). Male spiders are generally much smaller than their female counterparts.

 

Really weird spider.

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Uploaded on September 5, 2009
Taken on September 4, 2009