#spotted orbweaver

[onenicebugperday]

Can you please help us identify my friend’s “garage” spider? I think it’s a cross spider, but I’m not sure

location: Southern California

It's not a cross orbweaver, actually! Despite the marking that looks kind of like a cross. Normally an actual cross orbweaver (Araneus diadematus) will have a cross made of white dots on the front of the abdomen right behind the head. This lady looks like a spotted orbweaver in the genus Neoscona.

Here's a cross orbweaver for comparison:

Photo by hedera.baltica

[alcnfr]

What may be a Spotted Orbweaver spider (Neoscona crucifera) with some Chafer Beetle (Cyclocephala... spp.) in it's clutches.

[ambalancexd]

Spotted Orbweaver on the front porch; they have been enjoying catching insects in the evening from the porch light

[thereissomethingunderthestairs]

My mom told me that last night she watched our other pet outdoor orb weaver Daenerys get eaten by another species of spider.. i told her it was probably a male and that was spider coitus she witnessed and that the male is probably a liquid wrapped in silk right now but she didnt believe me

but lo and behold…

She’s back… and with another suitor in the wings…

[arthropodopolis]

Spotted Orbweaver, Neoscona crucifera

[mantidz]

Spotted Orbweaver (I think)!

[aud-chron-images]

Making One's Way in the World...

[arachnophanatic]

A beautiful spotted orb weaver / Neoscona sp.

Male pedipalps? And also the most voluptuous abdomen I’ve ever seen on a male actually. He is stunning.

[ljsbugblog]

a small orb with a wonderfully intricate abdomen, resting on her silken retreat amongst the grasses.

Unknown Spotted Orbweaver, female (genus Neoscona).

[onenicebugperday]

@saturniidaez submitted: Apologies for the awful image, it's very dark outside, but this big lady just made a web near our porch! I'm having a hard time ID'ing her because. Brown orb weaver is not an uncommon thing. Found in [removed]! (Remove location please!) Her actual web is so small but the supports go on so far... I love her

I ALSO love her. She is a spotted orbweaver in the genus Neoscona!

[alcnfr]

A Spotted Orbweaver spider (Neoscona crucifera) or at least that's what I am calling it...

[intothespiderverseheadthoughts]

Miles: I like personality quizzes in theory but in practice I just get irritated by the semantic ambiguity of literally every question. "On a spectrum from scientific to artistic what are you" motherfucker I literally wax poetic about the laws of thermodynamics where the fuck does that land on your spectrum.

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 Ben Riley: due to personal reasons I will be sitting on my bed in a wet towel and staring at the wall for the next 25 minutes.

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Jess: Your future self is hating you for the poor decisions you're making today.

Gwen: Bold of you to assume current me isn’t also hating myself for making the decisions that I am making.

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Bonnie: Beat your depression. Beat it with a fucking broom, beat it into the fucking ground, die, die, die!

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Hobie: Nobody controls what I do!!! Nobody!  Not even me! I'm out of control but only I control that!

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Pavitr: *watching Margo play a video game* In a game, with no consequences, why are you still playing the 'good' side?

Margo: Because being mean makes me feel bad.

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Ganke: I hate how you're just born out of nowhere and you're forced to go to school and get education so you can get a job what if I wanted to be a duck?

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Miles: I hate when people are actually really prepared for a test.�� Like, who do you think you are? Someone who actually has their life together? That is not acceptable

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Bonnie: Earthquakes are the weirdest things. Like we're just floating in space and our planet just decides to spontaneously do the chimichanga.

Miguel: Who let her back in?!

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Spectacular! Peter: Just found out my entire personality is a trauma response.

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Miguel: Peter B. is trying to prove that he's closer to the younger spiders than I am but the joke is on him because he doesn't know how little I care for Gwen.

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Jess: Orbweaver! What’re you doing today?

Bonnie: Having my day ruined with whatever you’re about to ask me to do.

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Peni: do you care if i take the skin off of the furby? I want to make him a diety. once he is free of his sinful flesh he can begin the path towards enlightenment. he will take care of us. Also I want to softhack his circuits

Miles: i literally could not care less but never say anything as frightening as that ever again

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Hobie: Who hurt you?

Gwen: Do you want a list or what?

Hobie loading his gun: Actually, yes.

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Margo: I am shattering like glass, but at least I have video games

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Spot: Hello there, Spiderman. Long time no see. Except in my revenge fantasies, where I see you on an hourly basis.

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Pavitr: Miguel sleeps after us and is awake before us. Does he ever actually sleep?

Spectacular! Peter: I think he periodically makes a whirring noise and then just shuts down.

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Hobie: It's your first time being a fugitive, so I made you a watch.

Gwen: Thank you, Hobie.

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Ben Riley: I'm sorry I messed everything up. I guess I'm not cut out for the high stakes world of having friends.

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Miguel: It was reported to me by—

Miles: By your spies?

Miguel: No, no. Not spies. People I have terrorized into doing my bidding and watching other people and places for me. You pay spies.  

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Pavitr: Remember how I have such good luck that it’s almost bullshit?

Gwen: I’m afraid to ask, but go on.

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Miguel: Bonnie, a question — if Jess and I were drowning, who would you save?

Bonnie: You can both swim.

Miguel: True, but it’s a hypothetical question, so who would you save?

Bonnie: My time and effort.

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Margo: Remember Spiderwomen, before you say or do anything, ask yourself: Is this something that would get me diagnosed with female hysteria and locked in the attic by my relatives in the late 19th century? If the answer is yes, proceed.

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Ham: Hey! How’s it going?

Peni: On all levels except physical, I am dead.

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Miles: Top 30 reasons why Spiderman is sorry, number five will surprise you!

Spot: Top 30 anime deaths! Number one: Your fucking ass right now!

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Bonnie, taping a knife to a roomba and setting it loose: Be free, my child.

Miguel, entering the room with a cut on his ankle: WHO THE FUCK—

[felgueirosa]

an orbweaver spider built a pretty large web in the middle of our porch about a week ago and my gf and i started turning on the porch light at night to attract bugs to feed the spider and we were going to give it a few days in luxury before removing the web since its blocking us from watering the plants but now we're too attached to the spider

[lyledebeast]

A big-ass spider has moved into the premium big-ass spider spot outside my front door. Pumpkin spice coffee is on the shelves of my grocery story, and PSLs are appearing on coffee shop menus. Candy corns are popping up like the first blossoms of spring.

Time to break out the flannels and admire them from a distance for the last month and a half of summer!!!!!

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Damned near walked right into this Western Spotted Orbweaver and web along the house tonight.

There would have been so much screaming and running had I walked into it.

[vainvex]

lately it's been a nightly habit to watch the orbweavers in the bathroom window as they build their webs and hunt. they're so lovely to observe