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New web today. Outside of my bedroom window. Same pace to was yesterday. There are tiny little baby spiders. Only 1/2 the size of a baby fruit fly!
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- Submitted: Oct 18, 2018
- Photographed: Oct 18, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Baton Rouge , Louisiana, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: Yes
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Hi, that is an interesting angle you got a photo of her in! From this angle she looks like a woman dancing on a tropical island. I think she’s a mabel orchard orbweaver
Thank you for your reply! I believe I’ll name her Mabel. I have another interesting shot of her underside. I will try to figure out how to post it. She also had a little tiny tiny baby on her way a few weeks ago but I can no longer see it. I never could get a good clear shot of it unfortunately.
https://spiderid.com/spider/tetragnathidae/leucauge/argyrobapta/
Mabel Orchid Orb Weaver
Thanks! Her babies may begone because orbweaver babies can fly! The spiderlings and some adult spiders calculate air currents and put out a strand of web that catches the wind and they can fly for miles. I think I read that Charles Darwin was puzzled by the sudden appearance of spiders on his boat in the middle of the ocean. It was a long time before people learned that spiders can do this and they can go quite a long distance.