Comments & ID Thoughts
-Picture is of the underside of spider
-Size seems to be about that of the diameter of a tennis ball or slightly bigger
-Only comes out at night
-Diameter of base web is about 2.5ft. but stretches from end to end of a 6ft. wide gazebo support legs.
-Makes a new web every night and in the morning the web is gone.
-Changes location almost every night around the same gazebo
-Orb shaped web center
-No egg sacks in sight
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Aug 17, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 13, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Martinsville , Indiana, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
looks like Larinioides cornutus
I think you’re right, a male Larinioides cornutus seems to be a match