Wow, she’s cool! She appears to be a very large and gravid Araneus gemmoides, a cat-faced spider. We don’t see many so darkly colored. They do exist, some websites, such as bugguide.net have displays of the color range of specimens.
Wow, she’s cool! She appears to be a very large and gravid Araneus gemmoides, a cat-faced spider. We don’t see many so darkly colored. They do exist, some websites, such as bugguide.net have displays of the color range of specimens.