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Crab looking spider-Orb Weaver? - Gasteracantha cancriformis
Copyright © 2009 JoLynn Self

Crab looking spider-Orb Weaver? - Gasteracantha cancriformis
Choctaw County, Oklahoma, USA
October 1, 2009
Found this at my mother in laws house and I had to take as many photos as I could of it. I should have left it on the tree. I did let it back out once I took photos of it.
It was odd for it kept shooting its web at me and my camera.
Contributed by JoLynn Self on 18 October, 2009 - 4:37pm
Last updated 19 October, 2009 - 4:14am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ron M., 19 October, 2009 - 4:14am

Shooting silk...
...is sometimes a sign of trying to balloon away. Although I am not sure if that is in fact a technique used by Spinybacks. And I definitely agree with John on the ID. Neat spider!
… Mandy Howe, 18 October, 2009 - 6:48pm

 
"balloon away"
like the kid in Colorado. :)
… Andrew Williams, 18 October, 2009 - 7:45pm

 
Haha!
...what a publicity stunt that was!
… Mandy Howe, 18 October, 2009 - 9:30pm

Look at
Gasteracantha cancriformis (Spinybacked Orbweaver)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/2026
… John R. Maxwell, 18 October, 2009 - 4:40pm

 
Gasteracantha cancriformis (Spinybacked Orbweaver)
Thank you so much. I just love looking at this spider. The rest I could do with out. :)
… JoLynn Self, 18 October, 2009 - 4:58pm

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