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Initial ID is a species of bird dropping spider, but cannot find any reference other than one species in Australia.
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Nov 10, 2018
- Photographed: Nov 3, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Silk Hope, North Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Found in web with egg sac and male nearby. Female about 2/3 as large as garden spider. I have several other pics from other angles, if needed for ID.
Argiope florida, the silver-backed Argiope, is a possibility. Please do post your other photos and put in the comments sections that they are the same individual spider as photo 48027. If you have Google Photos you can make them into a plain collage and put them as a single new posting. It tends to crop the photos laterally, rotation of the photos before creating the collage can help. If you prefer, please post them individually with comments. An image recognition program indicated that the genus could be Argiope, but it could be wrong.
Thank you for the quick reply. I have posted several additional photos as you suggested (see Picture ID 48068 which is a collage). I am quite sure this spider is not Argiope florida, but I am open to the possibility. Looking forward to further opinions. After thoroughly checking pics of spiders in NC, I could not find any that even closely resemble this one. Would be interested to know if it might be introduced.
Google Lens image recognition identifies the smaller, dead spider as Latrodectus geometricus. That would explain the L.geometricus eggsacks.