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This orb wevwe has been outside my sliding glass door for months. This is from August and he is still hunkered down in his hidey hole tonight.
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- Submitted: Dec 4, 2020
- Photographed: Aug 31, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Sandston, Virginia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi Wendave70! Could this be Neoscona crucifera, the Hentz Orb-weaver?
Well by the looks of it that could very well be the case! I am sad to say that we had a couple of hard freezes since I posted this picture asmy friend is now gone. She was such a good web builder too! I would just watch her for the longest time as she would rebuild every evening and a few times I caught her taking down the web in the morning. She was a good size too probably at least two inches…. She will be missed.
My Cat-faced Orb-weaver, Marie, disappeared with a hard freeze, too. I had been worried about her for a week, as she was sitting out in the icy rain, but she seemed to still be all right. I dried her off a few times and fed her once, but she vanished nevertheless. I never got to find out whether she laid her eggs or not. I had so hoped that she would leave me an egg sac full of adorable spider babies. I miss her, too.
Incidentally, my new series of comics is out, and this one’s for you!
https://spiderid.com/picture/132475/
She is back!! I don’t know where she went but it has been four days and she has returned to the same spot and has spun a new web! She is a lot smaller in the abdomen……
Oh yay! It sounds like she may have laid her eggs! I wonder where she would hide the sac…
(I’m working on replying to your other comments! : – )
I will be looking for it in earnest tomorrow with the rising of the sun!!!! If I should find it there will be pictures!!