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Please touch this.
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Location: Manhattan
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Help Identify This Spider
My boss found this spider in his back yard. It's name is Ritz.
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Tilted F*ckhead
Location: New Jersey
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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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![]() ![]() 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 ![]() Last edited by Xepidemic; 10-09-2004 at 06:58 PM.. |
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Crazy
Location: Minnesota
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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? |
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Location: Manhattan
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I think Xepidemic got it. Sounds like a variant or young orb weaver.
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Location: Manhattan
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it's got a flat head, 3 holes, the bumps, and faint markings... what else?
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Warrior Smith
Location: missouri
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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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Warrior Smith
Location: missouri
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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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Warrior Smith
Location: missouri
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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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And we'll all float on ok...
Location: Iowa City
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Kill it.
I see why's it's name Ritz. That's awesome.
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Fluxing wildly...
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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After looking at FP's page, I'd have to say it looks like she's right
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It's All About The Ass!!
Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!
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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!!
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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 Last edited by Xepidemic; 10-10-2004 at 08:06 PM.. |
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Fly em straight!
Location: Above and Beyond
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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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Warrior Smith
Location: missouri
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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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