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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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Unknown spider - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2011 Bruce Gentle

Unknown spider - Neoscona crucifera
Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USA
August 14, 2011
Size: nickel size
Not sure but thought it could have eggs on her back?? No I did not kill it. It ran off after I took the pictures.

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Contributed by bgentle on 14 September, 2011 - 10:51pm
Last updated 15 September, 2011 - 4:47pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 September, 2011 - 4:47pm login or register to post comments

Neoscona crucifera
I think it is likely the commonly photographed Neoscona crucifera. Compare with others here.

It doesn't have eggs on its back. No spiders in our range carry eggs on their backs... though the wolf spiders carry their young on their backs.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 September, 2011 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

 
thank you for the identification
thank you for the identification. Is there a common name for this spider?
… bgentle, 15 September, 2011 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

 
common name
Some people call it a barn spider... but I don't like that because there is another spider called a barn spider in the genus Araneus. Having more than one spider with the same common name can get confusing.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 September, 2011 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

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