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- Submitted: Apr 24, 2024
- Photographed: Aug 7, 2022
- Spider: Neoscona arabesca (Arabesque Orb-weaver)
- Location: Québec, Quebec, Canada
- Spotted Outdoors: On Flower,Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Webs, In Retreat
Aug 23, 2020
Jul 27, 2020
Lac du Flambeau, 
Not really shown in the picture, but the spider made a taut strand of silk between two plants instead of a web and was sitting at one end of it on a dead flower.
For a better view of the pattern on the abdomen, see picture ID 195070
Your observations are interesting. This is our first filed observation from Canada for genus Neoscona. She looks like an Arabesque Orbweaver. In the other photo there are flat black semicircles down her abdomen. They are the visual clue for this species.
She’s building a small orb web using the flowers, or just a partial one. She chose a perfect place to hide herself! The web might just be part of her sleeping retreat. Some orbweavers pull together several leaves or fold flower bracts or fern fronds. I like seeing photos of the creative retreats spiders make from what they find.