Comments & ID Thoughts
Michigan, caught building a web on our front porch
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- Submitted: Aug 10, 2022
- Photographed: Aug 10, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Bancroft, Michigan, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi. this looks to be a missing sector orb weaver. They are not medically significant.
If she is out of the way, I would just leave her to admire their fancy web.
Species Zygiella x-notata – BugGuide.Net
Thank you! Haha, she’s real pretty, been putting flies in her web hahaha she’s neato:)
I am guilty of feeding orb weavers I have around also. Try a flashlight after dark near the web. It attracts flying insects that get stuck in the web. Sometimes, so many they go nuts getting them all.