wound or leaking or anything like that. The discoloration almost looked to me like a slight roughing up of the surface of the spider's body. I suppose it could have been fungus, although 24 hours seems like an awfully short amount of time for the fungus to become so prominent (of course, I am far from an expert on anything in this realm). Also, it seems strange to me how the white discoloration follows the pattern of the spider's coloration in a few spots...I will be walking by this spot again in a couple hours, and I'll try to see if she's still there and if the discoloration has changed or anything.

I went to check on the spider again, and I found her web, but I couldn't find her. Her web seems fairly new, but there are a bunch of fuzzy seeds (from the plant that it's attached to) that have blown into it, so I'm not sure how old it is. I guess this means that either she's hiding out and I just can't see her (maybe that she relocated?), or that she is dead. I'll check again tomorrow when I walk by that spot.

I've checked that spot several times in the last week, and it looks like this particular spider has disappeared.

I had also wondered if maybe the spider had been attacked, but was unsure if anyone else had observed anything like this. It seems like a definite possibility.