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- Submitted: Oct 8, 2018
- Photographed: Oct 9, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Orangeburg , South Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 43133
It’s dead now. I killed it with bug spray. I feel bad, but it was acting violently shaking it’s web. I just thought it was acting aggressive. I’ve let yellow garden spiders hang around as long as they liked. Even fed them bugs. But this one was different. I thought anyway.
Thank you for trying to make ammends by learning more about the spider. She’s a garden spider AKA/orb weaver. I don’t know what species she is, her colors may have changed from the chemical changes in her blood from the insecticide and death. Some spiders change their own colors by adding and subtracting chemicals from their bloodstream, I think that is really cool. Some orbweavers shake the web violently when they see a large animal, like a human. You saw how effective the technique is for making the spider seem more dangerous than it is. Some long-legged house spiders,like Pholcus… Read more »