Lakeland Highlands Scrub, Polk County, Florida,08/23/2018

Order: Araneae. Family: Araneidae. Species: Araneus diadematus (Clerck, 1758). Also known as the European Garden Spider, Diadem Spider or Cross Spider. Native to central and northern Europe. (Salem, MA)

Araneus marmoreus. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.

Leucauge venusta--this is apparently a male. It had a little bit of a web on some leaves, I think, but not the large web of a female.

-BugGuide account--Leucauge venusta

-->Information on Howell Woods in Johnston County, North Carolina

From the Uloboridae family.

I had just finished trimming our hedge on Monday morning, being careful to leave the spiderwebs intact. Still, it must have been disruptive for the residents. Afterwards I found this orchard orbweaver on my orange extension cord (left). I carefully guided her off the wire so that I could photograph her underside (right). Mary escorted her back into the holly.

Spider time (again)!

Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes). Pretty!

Panama, Barro Colorado Island

Stanley Park

Vancouver BC

4/13/14

Longjawed Orbweaver (Tetragnatha) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City"

(NYC)

This guy's web was about 3 feet wide, and constructed of long stretchy spoke strands, and with even the slightest breeze it can move several inches in any direction, so it's much easier for this guy to capture its prey than for us photographers to capture it!

Luckily this morning was dead calm with a lingering fog, but even then it was still a challenge, and it took about one hundred captures to yield a dozen or so decent shots.

Orchard Orbweaver (Female)

Species: Leucauge venusta

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Shot through my bedroom window.

Orchard Orbweaver aka Orchard Spider

Leucauge venusta

Timonium, Baltimore County, Maryland

Neoscona adianta - on Corfu

With freshly caught fly.

Marshall Hampton Reserve, Polk County, Florida, 03/21/2017

Leucauge venusta--this is apparently a male. It had a little bit of a web on some leaves, I think, but not the large web of a female.

-BugGuide account--Leucauge venusta

-->Information on Howell Woods in Johnston County, North Carolina

Spider time (again)!

Lakeland Highlands Scrub, Polk County, Florida, 09/02/2017

Cross Orbweaver spider, Keats Island, BC

Thicket beside parking lot, Squibnocket Beach, Chilmark, MA 8/21/22

Thicket beside parking lot, Squibnocket Beach, Chilmark, MA 8/21/22

noceiling.blogspot.com/2007/08/spiders.html

Another backyard guest; still working on ID

I am arachnophobic. And I'm trying to get over it... I had my dad stand close by today as I photographed this lady... just in case I needed to be rescued. I was terrified and fascinated. Talk about a heart pounding adrenaline rush. My mom tells a story about how my great grandmother would leave her kids in the bassinet on the porch while she worked in the garden or did laundry. These spiders had built a canopy around the porch and the idea was that they would keep the bugs off the kids. It surprises me that this spider's benevolence actually reassured me a little this morning...

in the front yard

Larinioides cornutus waiting for a meal to show up

RP 072712

taken with Canon EOS Rebel T3i

Canon EF-S 60 mm macro lens

Rouge Park, Ontario

Auugust 27, 2012

Gasteracantha cancriformis

Micrathena sagittata

Leucauge venusta

Southwest, Georgia

This spider, also known as European Garden Spider, is an invasive species. I photographed this one outside on our deck, making a meal of a moth caught in its web.

Belmont, CA

10.18.13

Nephila edulis,Trig bushland dunes.

Orchard orbweaver (Leucauge venusta) at Hahn Horticulture Garden, Virginia Tech