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Barn Spider

Barn Spider

Photo by es20153
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Field Notes

Description:

They are around three quarters of an inch in length and are usually yellow and brown in color.

Habitat:

They are mostly found in North America in late summer and through autumn. Barn spiders are most common in the Northeastern United States and Canada

Notes:

This spider was made well known in the book Charlotte's Web by American writer E. B. White, with a particularly interesting point that the spider's full name is Charlotte A. Cavatica, a reference to the barn spider's scientific name, Araneus cavaticus

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PublishedSeptember 12, 2015

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