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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Mecynogea » Basilica Orbweaver (Mecynogea lemniscata)
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Webs - Mecynogea lemniscata
Copyright © 2009 Cheryl

Webs - Mecynogea lemniscata
Seymour, Tennessee, USA
July 10, 2009
Story here..
Years ago I started noticing webs in my Japanese Maple tree. Every year, more webs, until I also noticed the tree starting to die. When a late freeze took half my tree, what literally looked like hundreds of webs appeared all over the tree limbs. Now , there are probably a dozen. In the early morning hours you can see the webs better because of the dew. We like call them the spider condominiums. LOL.
What type of spider is making these webs ?
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Contributed by Cheryl on 11 July, 2009 - 10:42pm
Last updated 12 August, 2009 - 6:06pm

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… john and jane balaban, 11 August, 2009 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

Wow!
That's really neat. I think these are basilica spider webs. If I'm right, if you look closely at those broad domes (of which four are visible in this photo), you will see that each is a very tightly woven orb web. (If you're unfamiliar with the term, an orb web is the classic type of spider web composed of a spiral built on a framework of strands radiating from a central "hub.")
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