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Micrathena gracilis
A Spined Micranthena building a web. This is a female (males do not spin webs). She has an amber body and sports a large abdomen with ten spines (two rows of 5 spines each).
Came across this spider building it's web an hour or so after dawn in a forgotten corner of the yard. This corner is a shady, wooded area.The large, round web was being constructed about 3 feet from the ground. She will de-construct it again when night falls
While she was happily spinning her web when I first came along (image #2), my stretching and craning about (trying to not fall into the poison ivy patch) finally disturbed her so much that she ran first to the center of the unfinished web (images #3 & #4) and then across the "escape line" they build into webs (image #1 & #5).
Spotted on Jul 12, 2012
Submitted on Jul 12, 2012
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