Comments & ID Thoughts
This spider was huge and the vehicle headlight caught notice of it on the side of a brick apartment building in Morgantown, WV.
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- Submitted: Sep 2, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 1, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Morgantown , West Virginia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi, she’s a gravid Neoscona crucifera. The female orbweavers are much larger than the males developmentally. Their abdomens also stretch quite a bit as their eggs develop. It will shrink down to a more normal size once she’s deposited her eggs into egg sacks.