with my description. If you are not familiar with N. clavipes, this is what small females look like. As they grow, the females change color and pattern, ending up like the well known adult. I posted a pic (right next to these two) a while back of an intermediate female that has both juvenile and adult color/pattern. Hope this helps.

Thank you so much for providing these images and that information. I was ready to call you on it, too:-) Ha! Thanks again.

is the style of web. You may already know, but orb webs and other web types are often unique to a genus and sometimes species. If you notice the hub, you can see it is a typical Nephila stlye. It sometimes helps IDing immature specimens that do not resemble adults. When I first saw an immature Nephila, Leucauge sp. came to mind, until I took a closer look at the web.