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Orchard Orbweaver (Leucauge venusta) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC).
I spotted this gal's web on a ladder next to my garage, and after trying several times to get a good angle I decided to try a new trick. The trick was to gather up her web on a twig, and move her to a new location where I had stuck a branch in the ground and could use my pond for a nice BG.
I was figuring on making some captures of her sitting on the twigs near the end of the branch, but she imeadiately got to work on a new web the minute I placed her on the branch!
Here she's working on the first lateral strand at what will become the center of her new web.
But there was still a problem at her new home in that she would not hold still for a picture.
That is until I figured out that if I lightly tapped the branch she was working on she would think I was the local wren looking for spiders and she would freeze long enough for me to make a few captures before she got back to work. I had to be quick though, 'cause it didn't take long for her to get back to work, because she (like me) know that wrens don't stay in one place for more than a few seconds!
Scientific Name: Gasteracantha cranciformis
Common Name: Spiny Orbweaver
Certainty: unknown (notes)
Location: Florida Keys; Upper Keys; Dove Creek Hammock
Date: 20070102
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Found this pretty spider (Araneus detrimentosus) when staying with friends outside of San Antonio last November.
This photo is of a Spotted Orbweaver, Neoscona crucifera. This picture was taken along the side of the library. These spiders live all over the United States and get their name from the distinct orb shaped web they spin. The can grow from anywhere from 2 and 5 centimeters with the males usually being slightly smaller than the females. Their main diet is insects and they play a key role in keeping pest insects populations down across the US. They have an average lifespan of about 12 months. The females lay their eggs in late summer or fall in a cocoon made of their web. The females can lay over 1,000 eggs. The young emerge from their nest in early spring and disperse by ballooning, which is when they use their web as silk balloon that is then picked up in the wind. They become mature in late summer and die in the fall when the first frost kills the last few remaining adults. Since this photo was taken in late October, this spider was nearing the end of its life.
This is a picture of a Gasteracantha cancriformis at Waveland Beach on Hutchinson Island in Saint Lucie County, Florida.
One of those spider balls. Baby common garden orbweaver spiders. Focus stacked using zerene.
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/17385499672/ for a 3D version
Lots of young Orb Weavers out back - my favorite spider - in about a month they will be blueberry size.
Orb weaver in the garden is growing - about 1cm on the abdomen now. Anyone care to name the species?
A visitor in the garden this morning! (Eww)
Common Name: Cross orbweaver
Latin Name: Araneus diadematus
Family: Araneidae (the orb-web spiders)
Spiny-Backed Orbweaver Spider in the grounds of Hotel Robledal, San José, Costa Rica
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Lake Tawakoni State Park, TX. This Neoscona crucifera had attached its orb web to my camper. The web was full of midges, but it seemed to be ignoring them. I was leaving the site, so I detached the web manually, making sure that the spider could eat the web to recycle it. However, minutes later when I returned to the web, the spider had rolled the web up into a ball and separated out this ball of midges. When it finished eating the web, it began working on the midgeball.
Another of our common spiders, this orbweaver is often seen hanging vertically from its web, head toward the ground. It builds webs in high-traffic areas to catch as many insects as possible. As with many spiders, it eats the web each morning and creates a new one at night. This allows it to recoup some of the energy it expends while spinning the web, as well as recycling the proteins for energy (which helps if it didn't catch any insects that day!).
A banana spider (Nephila clavipes) patiently awaits for its meal at Little Manatee River State Park, Fla. on Sept. 3, 2009.
Another example of camouflage. This orbweaver when disturbed runs up its guide line and perches on a mossy branch, becoming almost indistinguishable. Birds see best in reds and yellows, so you can imagine how this must look to them! The upraised hind leg is still feeling the tension of the web in case there is the movement of prey. Like this, the spider can rapidly go from a state of camouflaged hiding to the offensive. Lowland Amazonian rainforest, Manu national park, Peru.