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Neoscona crucifera
The spider is more orange in person. About as wide as my thumb, very common to see many here during late Summer/Early Fall and makes wide webs all over in shrubs mainly.
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http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/140.... Here is my spot. Good luck!
If you only had the underside. The Hentz's Orbweaver Spider (Neoscona crucifera) is my guess. It has variable colors from dark brown to orange. I found orange. See attached. I am not totally certain though.
StephanieCobbold you are right about genus, but there are 3 orange ones that look so similar i'm not sure of which one?
This is definitely an orbweaver (family:Araneidae). Perhaps in the genus Araneus?
Spotted on Aug 31, 2011
Submitted on Aug 31, 2011
