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Marbled Orb Spider. I encountered this spider hiking on the Weverton Cliff Trail near Harpers Ferry.
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- Submitted: Nov 4, 2019
- Photographed: Oct 30, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Knoxville, MD close to Harpers Ferry, Maryland, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
So cute with all the colorful leaves around them
Hi there this is a beautiful picture of a marble orb-weaver uwu
Thank you! I believe I’ve seen others before similar to this, but more red and black color tones without the yellow.
Araneus marmoreus has a wide variety of colors and markings combinations. The black and yellow is the most common, but we’ve been seeing more marbled Marbled Orbweaver photos this year. The legs always are red proximally and black distally. https://bugguide.net/node/view/2016 This is Bugguide’s great page on the variations. This species is attractive in every combination, I like to see the photos that people submit to see what else Nature could create https://spiderid.com/spider/araneidae/araneus/marmoreus/ This is a link to Spider ID’s filed photos of the species, there is a link See More after the featured photos to the rest of the 68.
I agree. Thank you for the resource. The varieties are incredible.