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This beautiful spider needs and ID, please! - Araneus thaddeus - female

This beautiful spider needs and ID, please! - Araneus thaddeus - Female
Chamblee, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
November 4, 2008
Size: 1/2 inch
These animals have "appeared" with marvelous housing right next to delicate webs.

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This beautiful spider needs and ID, please! - Araneus thaddeus - female This beautiful spider needs and ID, please! - Araneus thaddeus - female This beautiful spider needs and ID, please! - Araneus thaddeus - female

Yes that beautiful lattice home leads
us to suggest Araneus thaddeus, in the guide here. Nice find!

 
Wow!
Thanks for that prompt reply. Though I am a biologist by upbringing, spiders do give me the willies. I suppose it's childhood scares or the absolutely foreign morphology that "creeps me out". I will say, though, there are some absolutely gorgeous spiders in my back yard! Colors and patterns of colors are short of the fantastic!

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