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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Araneus saevus
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What spider, please. - Araneus saevus
Copyright © 2009 Cathy Wilson

What spider, please. - Araneus saevus
Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio, USA
August 29, 2009
Could this be Araneus? A year or so ago I found a very similar spider 100 yards away from this one that was crawling about on a porch swing frame.

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What spider, please. - Araneus saevus What spider, please. - Araneus saevus
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 31 August, 2009 - 4:53pm
Last updated 6 October, 2009 - 10:14am

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… Lynette Schimming, 6 October, 2009 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 19 September, 2009 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

Great optical illusion....
...looks like a hairy frog. (with extra legs, that is.)
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 31 August, 2009 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

 
You're right!
I'd missed that. Cool!
… Cathy Wilson, 31 August, 2009 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Wonder if it might be a male Araneus saevus
in the guide here. Nice find! Let's see if Lynette agrees.
… john and jane balaban, 31 August, 2009 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John.
And yes, I hope Lynette agrees. We'll wait :0) The irony of this 'find' is that my sister-in-law spotted it from 6 feet away. It was only a foot from my elbow and I'd have missed it. The irony arrives in the form of her severe arachnophobia. Poor thing had to sit across from me and watch as I chased it around for these photos. The men wanted to dispatch the creature and relented as I demanded they spare it. I felt like I was playing Pocahontas to the spider's John Smith.
… Cathy Wilson, 31 August, 2009 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

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