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Photo by ShannonFox
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Field Notes

Description:

This spider is about the diameter of a nickel, and sat in the middle of a nice circular symmetrical web in the outside window at work. Each window had it's own spider.

Habitat:

Several of these were found making nice orbed symmetrical webs in the outside windows of our building.

Species ID Suggestions

Garden Orb Weaver

Araneus

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Comments (2)
ShannonFox
Your welcome - thanks for the positive ID as the garden orb spider. Yes, these spiders are really neat to watch. They sit so patient until they get something in their web, and then spring into action so fast wrapping up their food.
RolandHayter
Thanks for your id on my English ivy photo. I know this spider as a garden orb spider. A female by the look of it. As I kid I would grab hoverflys by the wing and chuck them into the web and watch fascinated as the fly would be paralysed, wrapped up and devoured by the spider in the centre of the web, or the den at a corner of the web

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WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity

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PublishedApril 11, 2011

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