I am wondering if this is a dangerous type of spider. It had that big, brown humpback that made it move very slow, but it was quite big and i had never seen this kind of spider before.
I don’t know what the spider is, the word “humpback” reminded me that there are parasites of spiders that cause them to look humpbacked and move slowly. Some wasp species put their eggs into/onto a spider and the larvae consume the spider from inside and also take control of its movements. They will force it to stop making web for itself, instead it is forced to build a caccoon for the wasp larvae that are killing it. My father sums it up as, “Life isn’t so pretty at the bottom of the food chain.” Hopefully for your spider friend, she… Read more »
Alternatively, it could be a pregnant cat-faced spider, Araneus gemnoides. Someone else on this site HAS to be more familiar with the spiders of Romania than I am!
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I am wondering if this is a dangerous type of spider. It had that big, brown humpback that made it move very slow, but it was quite big and i had never seen this kind of spider before.
I don’t know what the spider is, the word “humpback” reminded me that there are parasites of spiders that cause them to look humpbacked and move slowly. Some wasp species put their eggs into/onto a spider and the larvae consume the spider from inside and also take control of its movements. They will force it to stop making web for itself, instead it is forced to build a caccoon for the wasp larvae that are killing it. My father sums it up as, “Life isn’t so pretty at the bottom of the food chain.” Hopefully for your spider friend, she… Read more »
Alternatively, it could be a pregnant cat-faced spider, Araneus gemnoides. Someone else on this site HAS to be more familiar with the spiders of Romania than I am!