As I crash through the woods, there's this one kind of spider that I always run into, unless I see it in time and manage to stop half an inch before I walk face-first into the web. This is not it.
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| Marbled Orb Weaver, Araneus marmoreus |
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| Marbled Orb Weaver, another one |
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| Yet another one, quite a bit bigger than the first two |
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| Another view, all tangled up in the leaves. These are all females |
I didn't see these at all until mid-September. Now they seem to be all over the place.
The markings in the black-and-yellow zone look just like batik, to me. Their red-orange legs are so bright in the woods.
