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Found during a night hike in kanuku mountains. For a greater selection of photos which include different angles and species ask by pm to be added to my friend's list.
Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by associating with a narco-trafficker. Today I am bushwhacking through the jungle in the remote trail-less backwaters of Guyana, waist deep in water and praying to make it through the rest of the day alive. What will tomorrow bring? God only knows. The adventure starts here- pbertner.wordpress.com/.
Neoscona sp., ~12 mm long. Spotted at midday in a conspicuous spot next to the sidewalk. IDed on iNat (www.inaturalist.org/observations/41559) as N. domicilorum.
Gasteracantha cancriformis, Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers). This individual is one of several now in our yard. One web (not this one) hangs above our driveway. Also called Crab Spider, Spiny Orbweaver Spider, Crab-like Orbweaver Spider, Crab-like Spiny Orbweaver Spider, Jewel Spider, Spiny-bellied Orbweaver, Jewel Box Spider, Smiley Face Spider, and Crablike Spiny Orbweaver.
This species ranges "across the southern part of the United States from California to Florida, as well as in Central America, Jamaica, and Cuba," according to Bugguide.
Not as clear as I would have liked, but it was in an awkward spot..and i REALLY didn't want it dropping down on my head.
This large Tetragnatha sp. made a brief appearance in the hub of her web before retreating once again to a neaby rock in the streambed.
This is hanging itself out to dry, having recently shed its skin.
It's a young one. Body less than 1cm.
Taken in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. All I've done is crop this, to remove the usual distracting stuff that's in a garden (like other plants...).
Leucauge venusta - Orchard Orbweaver - bugguide.net notes that venusta is Latin for "beautiful". I imagine that Venus is another derivative of that.
Found at Independence Creek, Independence, California, USA
Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/10080687@N04] I now believe this to be:
Western Spotted Orbweaver, Neoscona oaxacensis
The golden silk orb-weavers (genus Nephila) are a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous individual species found around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders or banana spiders. In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers (see also Nephila clavipes) are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope, such as the St Andrew's Cross spider. They usually eat their mate.
Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes) photographed at Bok Sanctuary in Lake Wales, Florida.
The Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes), also commonly known as a Banana Spider, build webs of a rather startling size, spanning several feet across. Beside the main web may be one or more barrier webs which protect her from predators. One or more small males may be found sitting in the female’s web, The web is a semipermanent structure which is repaired as necessary, not entirely destroyed and rebuilt daily, as is the case with some other orbweavers.
Like other spiders, this one will bite in self-defense, especially if you go out of your way to provoke it (in particular, by handling or picking it up). Spiders have venom which enables them to incapacitate their prey. However, the bite of most species is described as much less severe than a bee sting.