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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Marbled Orbweaver (Araneus marmoreus)
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Araneus marmoreus - female
Copyright © 2010 Dan McGlinn

Araneus marmoreus - Female
Chapel Hill, NC, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
November 27, 2009
Size: approx. size of a nickel
Found in the floodplain of a bottomland hardwood forest on the Johnson Mill Nature Preserve, approximate Lat/Long: 35.992672,-79.053574

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Contributed by Dan McGlinn on 3 January, 2010 - 10:26am
Last updated 3 January, 2010 - 12:51pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John Sloan, 3 January, 2010 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

Old female Araneus marmoreus
reaching the end of her year. The shriveled abdomen probably indicates she has left behind an egg case to carry on the species next year.
… john and jane balaban, 3 January, 2010 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

 
* Snif *
Well, the dead leaves, the diminished spider, the words shriveled and left behind . . . just kinda' makes me feel the inexorable passage of time as we leave the old year behind. sniff
;-)
… Cathy Wilson, 3 January, 2010 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
I've updated the image's information to reflect your identification
… Dan McGlinn, 3 January, 2010 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

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