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What is this spider? Dangerous?
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- Submitted: Oct 23, 2020
- Photographed: Oct 18, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Sušice, Czech Republic
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
No, she’s not dangerous at all. She’s an Orbweaver in genus Araneus. Here is a link the the listings of all Araneus species in the world from the World Spider Catalog https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/278 If you scroll down you will see horizontal grey bars for each species with the countries that are the major ranges. It isn’t very helpful in this case. We need volunteers from your region, most of us are in USA. Spiders like yours make orb (circle) webs like the “spiderweb ” emoji. They eat large flying or jumping insects. Yours looks like a female near the end of… Read more »