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Larinoides sclopetarius , Gray Bridge Orbweaver, dorsal. I found her and her web hanging from a stop sign in a shopping plaza at night. She's small for the species. The plaza lights affected the image, she WAS quite grayish in color.
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- Submitted: Oct 9, 2020
- Photographed: Oct 8, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
https://youtu.be/KSG4cFysbGU Youtube has a newly-posted BBC nature documentary that includes a segment on ballooning – how spiders fly.
It looks like a marbled orb weaver with the crooked stripes on the abdomen
Unfortunately the excess lighting affected the colors of the photo. A trick to identifying Marbled Orbweavers is the colors of the leg band markings because it is consistent. Proximal (near the body) to distal (farthest from the body) Marbled Orbweaver legs start with a long red segment, then alternate between red and white and black and white. The dorsal abdomen markings have some patterns in common in family Araneidae. https://spiderid.com/taxonomy/ A lot of them have stripes and/or the double bracket {} This species, Larinioides sclopetarius, is a bit difficult to memorize, it too me a few times of being corrected… Read more »