Uloborus glomosus
(Feather-legged Orb-weaver)

Hi, she’s an orbweaver kind of spider. She’s in genus Araneus. The black things on her legs are possibly tiny tuft areas of hairs, they look furrier on some orbweavers than others. I think that when spiders have the end of the abdomen pointed downward while they walk it is because they are deliberately making silk for a web. They produce silk whenever they walk as a safety line, but there is also conscious fine-tuning they can do to choose the qualities of the silk. I was just trying to do a photo shoot of a spiderling that my husband… Read more »