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This comic is for Wendave70, who gave me the idea and behavior observations to draw Verrucosa arenata, the Arrowhead Orb-weaver.
Arrowhead Orb-weavers spin their webs in the evening and take them down in the morning, spending the day in tiny leaf retreats. Unusual among Orb-weavers is their posture; they frequently rest in their webs facing upwards rather than downwards.
Reference image:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1054054/bgimage
Wendave70, thank you for being a wonderful spider-discovery buddy! Your kind heart always brightens my day. :-)
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- Submitted: Nov 29, 2020
- Photographed: Nov 29, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Moscow, Idaho, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
@Wendave70 – 🙂
How are you doing? That trapdoor spider you found was pretty shiny!
I am good!! Hope you are as well. It seems as though I have had lots of new visitors lately and that Trapdoor was a surprise to be sure!! I looked it up and thought it looked like a Trapdoor but then convinced myself it wasn’t having never seen any others about. And CLEARLY the test of something’s existence is whether or not yours truly has seen it in large numbers….. I would like to see one with one of those fancy schmanchy trap doors that they build! What I am not seeing and it makes me quite sad indeed… Read more »
Yes, I am quite well! Our spider season is over; trees are laced with delicate frost while the hills lie under a blanket of smooth white snow. It is as if the whole land is sleeping, waiting for spring to return. Wow, that sounds like great fun! I love tracing silk lines to find hideouts. “Find the Spider” is one of my favorite games! Finding a trapdoor spider’s burrow sounds like a huge task! I wonder how arachnologists do it. Let me check… “Dippenaar-Schoeman (2002) and van Dam & Roberts (1917) described active searching methods for collecting trapdoor spiders, which… Read more »
Cool! I had never heard about how they rest facing away from the ground.
Too cool! 😀
🙂 Thank you!
awww! I am so honored! And your depiction of the Arrowhead is right on. I have an area in my from yard where I would go each morning to see how many were there. The most I saw in one morning was six. Two had their webs facing one another. If you are not careful you will walk right into them! They are very much habitual as I am sure you know hiding in the same little leaf and returning to build their new webs in the same spots. I also enjoy coming back later to try to find that… Read more »