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European Garden Spider

Araneus diadema

Photo by Ingrid3
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Field Notes

Description:

orb weaver, large orange and brown/white tesselated abdomen

Habitat:

open sunny goldenrod field mid-day, dangling from the very top of an aster flowering plant, i was sitting right next to this spider and it had folded up its legs and was completely invisible to me until I was very still for a while and it unfurled its legs and started weaving a web inches from my face, wow

Notes:

SIMILAR TO: European Garden spider Araneus diadema

Species ID Suggestions

European garden spider

Araneus diadematus

Reference Link
mauna Kunzah
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Comments (1)
ForestDragon
Also called the Cross Orbweaver (same species just a different common name). I agree with Mauna's ID suggestion! Here is an additional web link for info on this beautiful introduced species: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3376

Spotted for Missions

Mission
International Spider Survey
Mission
Wildlife of Northeastern USA
Mission
National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedSeptember 19, 2013

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