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Please help. The entire web is dark red just like the spider in the center. Houston Texas area. Outside shady area by garage.
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- Submitted: Mar 16, 2019
- Photographed: Mar 16, 2019
- Spider: Leucauge venusta (Orchard Orb-weaver)
- Location: Katy, Texas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Webs
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
(Nashua River Rail Trail) Nashua , 
The entire web is dark red.
Not enough detail for me to be specific, the web being an orb rules out medically significant species however. If the web is red there are probably red particles in the air that clung to it. I am not aware of any species in your region that would produce a web that color. Spiders in the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae are possibilities.
I couldn’t find any species with red webs. It does look like fine particles, like a powdered chemical, might have been emitted in the area and stuck to the web. Orb spiders eat their webs in the morning and rebuild later. If it makes a new red web, that’s really interesting. If a chemical landed on the web she probably won’t eat it. She looks ill or dead already. Please let us know what happens.
Thanks. She is definitely alive. I will check on her in the morning. Nothing red in the area I can think of. Tree pollen is really high right now here and all over everything but that’s yellow.
You were correct. She died last night. Thanks for all the great info and help.
Thank you for her update and you’re very welcome. Sorry for the loss of your spider friend.