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Photo#130741
Argiope florida - female

Argiope florida - Female
Childs, Highlands County, Florida, USA
July 23, 2007

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Argiope florida - female Argiope florida - female

Yikes!
Did you give her a beer? Looks like she had been drinking before she made this stabilimentum!

 
This
could be a result of preperation for molting combined with juvenile type stabilimentum.
Then again, this is not the first drunken type we have seen!