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Blue Jay

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Message 16 of 18 (673139)
09-14-2012 1:33 PM

Reply to: Message 13 by arachnophilia
09-13-2012 9:48 PM

Hi, arachnophilia.

arachnophilia writes:

how come the answer to "what's this spider?" is always "orb weaver"?

I don't usually get a lot of people asking about orb weavers: usually, it's a wolf spider or agelenid funnel weaver that somebody thought was a brown recluse, because it's brown.

But, orb weavers are usually highly visible (because they build big, spiral webs up in open air where people can see them), and they are often brightly colored and/or oddly shaped. So, they tend to arouse more curiosity than other spiders.

-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)

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Message 17 of 18 (673174)
09-15-2012 3:50 AM

Reply to: Message 16 by Blue Jay
09-14-2012 1:33 PM

over on reddit, they were joking about putting the identification of the golden orb weaver in the title bar of /r/spiders so people would stop asking about it.

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Larni

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Message 18 of 18 (673195)
09-16-2012 7:42 AM

I was going to say a orb spider, too. The pattern on the abdomen gives it way.

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