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The young Orb Weavers started showing up about a week ago, they are about 1/3 of their adult size. Right now they are making webs about 3 feet across - by summers edge the webs will be ten feet across. They make them at night and eat them at sunrise and hide from the sun. Just a really interesting spider.
This spider web was on my deck this morning I was trying to get the light reflecting off of this toward the camera as the sun was behind me.
I think this is quite interesting because off the water reflecting the light as white.
Backlit web of an orb-weaving spider (probably Araneus).
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The heavy fog & dew covered everything yesterday. It's hard to see the water drops on the spider, but it was covered and very wet. Pretty amazing looking to see such tiny drops of water all over the web.
possibly an “Orchard Orbweaver”
Leucauge venusta, known as the orchard spider, is a long-jawed orbweaver spider that occurs from southern Canada to Colombia, along the East coast, reaching into the central US. The web is often oriented horizontally, with the spider hanging down in the center.
It is distinctively colored, with leaf-green legs and sides (which can sometimes vary to a dark green or even orange). The underside of its thorax is spotted with yellow and black, the top is silvery with brown and black streaks. The neon yellow, orange or red spots on the rear of the abdomen are variable in size among individuals and sometimes absent.
This species is parasitised by a wasp larva which attaches itself externally at the junction of the cephalothorax and abdomen.[1]
Spiders creep me out, but I can't help but love and admire the remarkable intricate nature of their webs.