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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Araneus andrewsi
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Latest and Greatest Portrait - Araneus andrewsi - female
Copyright © 2011 Robert Ransom

Latest and Greatest Portrait - Araneus andrewsi - Female
San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 29, 2011
Size: .75in
Still making large orbs every night. And now she has reached the grand dimensions of .75in from the frontmost surface of the Chelicera to the back-most point on the Abdomen. In her normal evening web waiting position she measures very close to 1.375 inches if her legs are included.

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Evening Porch Inhabitant - Araneus andrewsi Evening Porch Inhabitant - Araneus andrewsi Evening Porch Inhabitant - Araneus andrewsi Evening Porch Inhabitant - Araneus andrewsi Saturday Night Leftovers - Araneus andrewsi Sunday Night Dinner - Araneus andrewsi Thursday Night Wrap Up - Araneus andrewsi Getting a Little Fatter - Araneus andrewsi Getting a Little Fatter - Araneus andrewsi persevering - Araneus andrewsi Wednesday dinner... more vinegar flies - Araneus andrewsi Dec10 grand capture, a wasp - Araneus andrewsi Dec14 update Dec14 update Ventral - Araneus andrewsi anterio-dorsal? - Araneus andrewsi Abdominal surface - Araneus andrewsi Ventral View - Araneus andrewsi stretched out dorsal - Araneus andrewsi Earwig for dinner - Araneus andrewsi Earwig for dinner Another View - Araneus andrewsi April 16 Eleventh Hour Pose - Araneus andrewsi April 16 Eleventh Hour Pose Ventral - Araneus andrewsi April 16 Eleventh Hour Pose Ventral Detail - Araneus andrewsi - female May 13 Bigger and Bigger - Araneus andrewsi - female May 25 Red Admiral Dinner - Araneus andrewsi - female Latest and Greatest Portrait - Araneus andrewsi - female Ms A makes a nest - Araneus andrewsi - female Ms A makes a nest, another view - Araneus andrewsi - female Ms A bites beetle - Araneus andrewsi - female Ms A's Nest Dissected - Araneus andrewsi
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Contributed by Robert Ransom on 25 May, 2011 - 11:26pm
Last updated 3 June, 2011 - 11:47pm

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