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- Submitted: Jul 25, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 24, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Aiken, South Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi, this is probably Nephila clavipes, a golden silk weaver. Their silk looks golden instead of white. Her web is interesting, it is much tighter woven than most orbweaver webs, with more acute angles. Spider Geometry 🙂 The other spider in the web (left side) might be a male. The male spiders are driven to mate, but the females are driven to eat. The males approach very carefully, staying near the edge of the web. To show that they want to court, rather than be seen as prey they vibrate the web tentatively. It gets weirder after that…