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I don’t know the name. Two nights ago I accidentally broke a main filament & she consumed the entire web. She rebuilt a 2 ft. Web last night but this morning it was raggedy & now- 7:00pm - it is completely gone, but she is there. I have not found a dichotomous key for ID, so don’t have a guess. She-with legs-spans between 1 & 2 inches.
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- Submitted: Sep 4, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 4, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Madison , Wisconsin, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
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Hi, don’t feel bad, she was going to eat her web every day and rebuild it anyway. I don’t have a key for spiders either. You can learn most common spiders online without one. My college biology professors would have said that’s total blasphemy, but that was before the WorldWideWeb. I can’t see her markings at this angle, but she is very likely a cross orbweaver, Araneus diadematus, from what I can see and because that is an abundant orbweaver species in your area. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for your input. I had kind of come up with the orb weaver Araneus sp., but could get no further. I had no idea that they were common in this area. Question: Is it only females who spin the web, could this be a male? I had assumed that this was a female just because I referred to the spider as “she”. Again, thanks for your help.