Orb-Weaver

Description:

Multi-colored spider. Has purple, orange-yellowish strips on its legs, beige body, crown shaped purplish black and red dotted bottom, has 8 legs in groups of two, and has two 1/2" fangs.

Habitat:

Found in the tropics of Costa Rica. lowland area close to the beach.

Notes:

One morning while I was taking pictures of butterflies landing on the flowers outside my friend's home, I came within a few inches of walking into this spiders web. Luckily it was at face height and was able to see it before this happened. Someone I showed the picture to said these spiders are not venomous, but I forgot to ask her what was the species name.