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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona) » Neoscona crucifera
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Unknown insect - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2012 Hal Mann

Unknown insect - Neoscona crucifera
Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, USA
July 30, 2012
Size: 1 - 1 1/2 inch
While looking for newly hatched Monarch caterpillars I found this. Since this was so immobile and I couldn't find the cats, I though it was dead after eating a small caterpillar. I tried to pick it up, and it moved. It sat at the very top of a broken milkweed plant all day. I'm too new to this to even know if it is a spider or something else. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Contributed by Hal Mann on 31 July, 2012 - 11:17am
Last updated 23 March, 2013 - 10:11am

Moved
Moved from Spotted Orbweavers.
… Lynette Elliott, 23 March, 2013 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 8 September, 2012 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 20 August, 2012 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Spider
This is actually a spider. An orb weaver in the family Araneidae. Maybe genus Neoscona - it looks an awful lot like this to me:
… Kyron Basu, 31 July, 2012 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Spider ID
Outstanding. Thank you k. Looks like a perfect match to this untrained eye. Guess I was focusing on the wrong end. Your photo clearly shows the eyes.

Love your photos on Flikr.

This site is great. Can't wait for the day I too can identify something for a newbie.

Thanks again,
Hal
… Hal Mann, 31 July, 2012 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
BugGuide is wonderful, largely thanks to its superb community!

Sorry if I misunderstand - the photo I linked to above was actually taken by Mary Keim, not me. We often link to other images in the guide when suggesting possible IDs, for comparison.
… Kyron Basu, 31 July, 2012 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

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