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- Submitted: Sep 20, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 20, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: St Charles , Missouri, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 164511
It’s my greeter to guests. Really want to move it. So when identified please tell me where it would like to be moved to & survive
She’s an Orbweaver. We use the dorsal image (top of the spider) to ID to species level. Her goal is to eat big insects and nourish the eggs inside of her. She’ll make an egg sac in Autumn. So, the last day of Summer is a perfect time to relocate her. She needs a structure to support her web. They like hand rails, porches, sheds, clotheslines, tree or shrub branches, and fences. She would do best in an area with grasshoppers, katydids, hornets, flies…..insects that are too big to fit through the holes in the web. The orb (circle) web… Read more »