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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona) » Neoscona crucifera
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Spider - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2007 Keri Miller

Spider - Neoscona crucifera
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
September 16, 2007
Size: approx. 1/2 to 3/4in body
Maybe a Barn spider or Orb Weaver? Looks to be an adult female. We also saw a much smaller one (in a different area of the yard), maybe 1/4 inch or so that we didn't get any pictures of.

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Contributed by Keri Miller on 17 September, 2007 - 8:40pm
Last updated 12 September, 2011 - 7:55am

Moved
Moved from Spotted Orbweavers.
… Lynette Elliott, 12 September, 2011 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 6 October, 2007 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

Maybe Neoscona crucifera
Check in the guide there and see what you think.
… john and jane balaban, 17 September, 2007 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Well...
That is what I am thinking, but I don't know anything about spiders, so I didn't know if the Neoscona Crucifera and Barn spider were the same or not. A lot of my search was bringing up pictures of, what looked like, the same spider. The underside of the spider looks exactly like the Barn Spider on Wikipedia.org
… Keri Miller, 17 September, 2007 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Araneus
Araneus possibly ? cat face?
… Jeffrey A. Heupel, WHN., 20 September, 2007 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

 
It
is a Neoscona.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 18 September, 2007 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice shot.
Lovely image regardless of the identity of the subject:-) It is really difficult to get orb weavers to genus even, so don't despair.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 September, 2007 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

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