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Just about every Fall around October I usually find a timely themed "Pumpkin" spider (Marbled Orbweaver) outside around the house. Armed with my Canon 100mm macro and
This Trashline Orbweaver had made its web in the Mountain Laurel. One of my favorite spiders I was trying make out what "trash" it had in its web?
Male orchard orbweaver (Leucauge venusta) photographed during the 2013 National Geographic BioBlitz to Jean Lafitte State Park in Marrero, Louisiana.
Just about every Fall around October I usually find a timely themed "Pumpkin" spider (Marbled Orbweaver) outside around the house. Armed with my Canon 100mm macro and
I'm wondering if this little Humped Trashline Orbweaver, Cyclosa turbinata, is the same spider as I saw a couple months ago, before it apparently vanished. I watched it constructing a new web among our hostas. It dis this with astonishing precision, measuring the spacing with its legs. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, October 8, 2022.
One of the aspects of living in a warm and humid climate is that you may have to live with more and larger creepies than you are comfortable with. There are dozens of these beauties around my house and the immediate woods. Just wish they specialized in eating the billions of gnats that sometimes make outdoor life so miserable. Wait, I take that back! If they ate all the gnats, the spiders would be as big large dogs.
On the other hand, land would then be much cheaper around here.
After a day staying close to the condo, we decided to explore the northeast side of the island. Our morning plans didn't work out as we got out late and the parking lots were full, so we stopped at the Garden of Eden instead. On our way back to Kihei the Twin Falls parking lot was now open so we stopped. While the kiddos swam I snapped a couple of photos.
My parents, wife, daughters, and sister's family spent the holidays on Maui together. With kids in high school, middle school, and almost out of elementary school the ages allowed for memory making with this extended family trip. I'll be adding photos from the trip with small descriptions of them.
My mom wasn't comfortable with the placement of this wasp's nest, right above her door, so we took it down yesterday while the wasp was away. Both chambers were stuffed full of spiders, most of which look like young diadem orbweavers. Kind of creepy, considering the spiders are all probably still alive, but paralyzed. In the older chamber, we could see the tiny wasp larva feeding on a spider.
Poor wasp; I felt bad for wasting all of its work, but if I didn't take the nest down my mother would have sprayed it with poison anyway. Lesson: if you see a wasp building a nest where you don't want a wasp nest, disrupt its plan BEFORE it has gone to too much trouble. Surely if we had just broken up the mud foundation in the beginning, when we first noticed the wasp screwing around on the door frame, it would have taken the hint and built elsewhere.
This I presume is the male hanging out on the backside of the shelter.
Labyrinth Orbweaver
Metepeira labyrinthea
Arabesque Orbweaver (Neoscona arabesca) on seed head of Queen Anne's Lace. Mt. Pleasant, Howard County Conservancy, Howard County, Maryland.
Just about every Fall around October I usually find a timely themed "Pumpkin" spider (Marbled Orbweaver) outside around the house. Armed with my Canon 100mm macro and