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Help Identify This Spider
My boss found this spider in his back yard. It's name is Ritz.
http://www.mattsmodels.com/crap/ritz1.jpg http://www.mattsmodels.com/crap/ritz2.jpg http://www.mattsmodels.com/crap/ritz3.jpg It's body is about 1 inch long. |
Looks like a regular household cob-web spider to me. Any idea what the size of it is? Its kind of hard to tell with no point of reference.
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The heck with the spider, what did he use to photograph it? The last picture shows some really nice detail. For what its worth, I live in the southeast and have never seen a spider like that. Must be some kind of regional thing.
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looks like a muffin with legs!
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http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/b...iders/0044.jpg
http://troyb.com/photo/images/fullsi...-OrbWeaver.jpg http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/b...oaxacensis.htm Common name: Orb weaver Genus/species: Neoscona oaxacensis Order/family: Araneae: Araneidae Origin of illustrated specimen: Orange County, CA maybe that one you found is an albino :crazy: or young?? |
The thorax on that thing reminds me of the shell on a crab...
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Regular house spider!? Yikes!
Up here in the north that would freak the hell out most of the people and garner solemn consideration from the rest... our spiders are flat and black, no spines, no freaky holes in their massive abdomen, just straightforward. They get pretty big, but they are still black and smooth... House spider... if I saw that in my house in Minnesota I would call, well... someone... who, knows spiders.... umm... the DNR? |
I think Xepidemic got it. Sounds like a variant or young orb weaver.
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must be REAL young then, looks nothing like the orb spiders i've seen
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it's got a flat head, 3 holes, the bumps, and faint markings... what else?
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Find some sceintists at a local college, tell them about it. Get advice on how to catch it, or have them come out n grab it. New species should still be evolving and making appearances on our stage if life is how I believe.
Maybe youll get to name it. |
does it have a web- if it has no web it is not an orb weaver- looks like a type of spider we have round here in MO- have to check my state guide on spiders BTW- that does look like a ritz on his back......
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been bouncing round the spider sites of the web- as I myself have a heaping dislike for the brown recluse varietys, figured that I would check it out while keeping an eye out for any relatives of ritz- apparently the number of eyes on the spider makes a big difference, and speeds up Iding it- how many peepers does ol ritz have?
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found em- according to the photo guide of the spiders of orange county, (found via google) Ritz is a tree spider, a member of the orb weaver family- so props to xepidemic
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Kill it.
I see why's it's name Ritz. That's awesome. |
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After looking at FP's page, I'd have to say it looks like she's right :) Looks a lot more like one of those than an orb weaver.
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If you get bit by it, tell me if you become spiderman, I have those things crawling all around my house!
/look out its spiderman! |
We had one of those in our yard the other day. I didn't know what it was either. But around here we get all kinds of spiders. Used to have a big tarantula living under one of our stepping stones but my guess is it got tired of us lifting the rock to look at it and decided to move out. A large toad has taken up residence there now. I don't think it ate the tarantula though.
Asta!! |
That's some great photography, if I may say so.
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Between the two options given, no doubt in my mind it looks more like FP's idea.
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i think they are both considered orb weavers
from my post Common name: Orb weaver Genus/species: Neoscona oaxacensis Order/family: Araneae: Araneidae Origin of illustrated specimen: Orange County, CA from the link FP posted One of the most common but unusual spiders people encounter late in the season is the cat-face spider, Araneus gemma. so that ritz is some type of orb weaver |
Eeek! :eek: Get me a shoe with a hard sole!
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That is gonna take one big can of hairspray....
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Well, I spent some time looking at website and I don't like spiders just as much now as I did before. I got stuck reading bite stories from brown recluse spiders and now I am checking my shoes for them.
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Don't even get me started about venomous bugs in shoes. I just had a bad experience...
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the orb weaver family is quite big- and common name is a confusing part of id ing spiders- what is a cat faced spider in colorado may be a woods spider in orange county- either way its a member of the orb weaver family......and a benefit to have handy....
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I agree with Fire. Spot on. I dabble in Herpetolgy, and we see the same thing. One mans "Black Snake" is another's "Pilot Snake" and another's Black Ratsnake, and on and on! Not to mention those that believe every snake is a rattlesnake!
Also, agree with all about the photography on the orb weaver. Wow. Good stuff. |
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gee, thx everyone. and I am suppose to go to sleep now??? NO WAY!! Give me a snake anytime....
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