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Leucauge venusta - Orchard Orbweaver - bugguide.net notes that venusta is Latin for "beautiful". I imagine that Venus is another derivative of that.
Found at the Piney Ridge Townhome complex in Carroll County; Finksburg Quad.
Verified by Chad Heins. bugguide.net/node/view/1686711
This was found on the Soley Cove Road in Lower Economy, Nova Scotia. Any time I come across curled leaves I check for spiders that might be hiding inside.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae (fangs slope towards each other in a pinching action)
Family: Nephilidae
Genus/species; Nephila Clavipes
General Characteristics: Orb-weavers are highly sexually dimorphic. Females grow up to 8 cm (3 in), and are 5 to 6 times larger than males. Adults are mostly yellow with elongated abdomen and long, hairy legs. This spider lives in hot places. The long cylindrical abdomen of the spider may be angled towards the sun to reduce the amount of exposed body surface and thus prevent overheating. The reflective silvery surface of much of the body serves the same purpose.
Distribution and Habitat: These spiders are found from the southeastern United States south through Argentina and Peru. They prefer areas of high humidity and forest areas along trails and clearing edges. N. clavipes is the only member of its genus known in the Western Hemisphere.
Diet: They feed on small flying insects: beetles, flies, moths, etc., that are captured in their web. After prey is entangled in the web, the spider incapacitates it by biting and then encases it in silk.
Reproduction and Development: Mating is a tricky proposition for orb weaving males. For successful reproduction, males must successfully stimulate females in order to prevent being a meal for their would-be mate, though this unfortunate ending is relatively rare with this species.
Mortality/Longevity: Life span: a single season (1 year).
Remarks:
•Orb weavers construct webs for defense and capture of prey.
•The silk of the web usually has a golden color that is visible to the naked eye and is the source of the common name.
•The impressive web of most orb weavers is a semi-permanent structure, repaired and rebuilt daily as necessary.
•Spiders from the Nephilia species on display from Madagascar (see the Water Monitor exhibit) are sometimes released into the Rainforest exhibit. They have settled in a territory behind the exhibit and observable from the spiral ramp. Only females are released as 1) they are much larger than the males and so more visible and 2) the Rainforest biologists have no interest in the uncontrolled breeding of these spiders in the exhibit!
Rainforest Costa Rica CR03
3-22-13
Spiny-backed Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis or Gasteracantha elipsoides). Also sometimes called a Jewel Box Spider.
I walked outside today to find five individuals and their webs.
This is an European species which was introduced into NA. There are two Zygiella species found in NS, Z. atrica & Z. nearctica. The two can be separated by the length of the palpal tibia; a long one would mean Z. atrica which is the case here. Identified by Mandy Howe, BugGuide. Photographed in Coldbrook.
Orb weaver in the garden is growing - about 1cm on the abdomen now. Got it turn up by lightly misting the web - so it got a drink
Long jawed spiders are elongated spiders with long legs and chelicerae. The spiders are orb web weavers, weaving small orb webs with an open hub and few, wide-set radii and spirals. The webs have no signal line and no retreat. Some species are often found in long vegetation near water.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D90 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ringflash + Handheld.
(Larinioides cornutus) Myersville, Myersville Quad, Frederick County, Maryland. August 23, 2019. At MV light.
If anyone can identify the genus and species then this is information I would love to know!
Photographed in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh.
The underside of an orb weaver... I'm not sure what kind exactly, I'm still looking around for that.