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Friday, June 19, 2009

A Cool New Backyard Visitor!

One of the joys about moving, and there are but few, is discovering the new critters inhabiting your property! My wife found this Spinybacked Orbweaver hard at work in our yard yesterday.

5 comments:

Zach said...

There it sits, planning the extinction of mankind.

Snail said...

Very speccy! One of our species in the same group is known as the Christmas spider. Not sure if that's because they're common in summer or because of their festive appearance. Maybe it's a little of both?

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Neil said...

Ooo great find. The best we get here is wasp spiders, which arn't quite as cool

Dave said...

Gasteracanths are beautiful beasts. Nice pic.

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