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Nursery Web Spider Web
This spider has completely encased a purple cone flower with her web. The web contains tens of tiny spiderlings and she has woven the web to protect them. |
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Nursery Web Spider
This spider wanders over vegetation as a hunter and does not build a web to catch her prey. |
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Hammock Spider
Hammock Spiders get their name from the hammocklike sheet web they construct between fence posts, building, or the lower branches of trees and shrubs. |
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Orb Weaver
Each night the spider replaces the old web with a new one, spun in complete darkness by touch alone. |
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Garden Spider
Commonly referred to as the "cross spider" because the markings on the abdomen. This spider eats the remains of the web made the night before and spins a new web each night. |
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Garden Spider
This garden spider quickly wraps up a moth caught in his web. |
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Arrow-shaped Micrathena
This is a female. |
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Arror-shaped Micrathena in her web
Regular web woven inverticle plane. Spiral sticky strands leave a central hole through which spider can move easily from one side to other. |
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Grass Spider Web
Horizontal sheet with funnel extending from center to 1 edge. No sticky fibers but many long telegraph fibers across funnel opening. |
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Elongate Long-jawed Orb Weaver
This spider waits for prey at the central hole of web. It can dodge through the web at either side. |
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