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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Metepeira
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weird orb weaver - Metepeira
Copyright © 2018 Bob Westfall

weird orb weaver - Metepeira
Napa, Napa County, California, USA
July 24, 2018
Size: 3/8"
web (unusual) is littered with victim debris similar to a trash line spider, it has no hump or protuberance, has a hammock like home base it backs into, has an eggs sack(see pictures)

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Contributed by Bob Westfall on 27 July, 2018 - 3:56pm
Last updated 27 July, 2018 - 8:13pm

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One of the Metepeira
Check around the edges of the tangle and you might find a typical orb web in there off to the side
… john and jane balaban, 27 July, 2018 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

 
orb web
thanks for the reply, yes it has the usual web with a hole it zips through from a helter-skelter web behind it which is where it resides in it's web surround, you can see it in one of the pics I sent you
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