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My first Gasteracantha cancriformis! I hope this is the correct photo from my photo library, I'll find out soon..
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- Submitted: Jul 26, 2019
- Photographed: Jul 26, 2019
- Spider: Gasteracantha cancriformis (Spiny-backed Orb-weaver)
- Location: Poinsett State Park, Wedgefield , South Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Dorsal, Webs
Apr 8, 2024
Apr 8, 2024
Venice, 
Wow well done Tangled!!!
Thanks!! They were actually the only spiders we could find in the State Park. We found a big black, red, and yellow millipede that excretes cyanide too! I’m glad I was able to stop myself from touching the critter bare-handed now. The in-laws were so worried about us hiking in the South Carolina forest ( alligators, vipers, spiders, and hillbillies) that they went back to their house and drank and panicked. I was really hoping to see all of those things that they expected to kill us!
Hahaha! Good for you for being adventurous!!! I have never seen G. cancriformis in the wild.
State/national parks are such amazing places! The last couple of photos I have submitted were from a national park in the Caribbean and I had never seen either species before. However, compared to where I live, there are almost no spiders to be found. Their equivalent here seems to be little curly-tailed lizards.
Islands often don’t have as many spiders, they have to be introduced to the place from a mainland. I intend for all of my future travels to include Nature reserves and parks. There hasn’t been mosquitoes either here nor the White Mountains National Forest. South Carolina has WAY more species diversity than New Hampshire. I’ve seen mammals I haven’t seen before. I saw a lot of new-to-me spiders today, unfortunately my photos didn’t come out well. I’m experimenting with equipment, but may fast moving tiny things in the dark just aren’t what cameras are made for. I saw a big… Read more »