Gasteracantha cancriformis (spinybacked orbweaver) is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World.
These guys livr around me and love to weave their huge pretty webs low in the trees near a streetlamp. I think this might be a deliberate choice to catch moths.They also hang dead leaves from the bottom.of their webs as structural anchors.
They also hang dead leaves from the bottom of their webs as structural anchors.
Don't we all?
I'm serious when I say that I don't know if you're joking. I've never even seen a "[CW: arachnophobia]" before.
People don't post a lot of spider pictures here. Might not be a bad idea to cw a spider.
Oh sick I used to see these little guys sometimes growing up
I don't know if this is lethally poisonous but it looks like it is so I'm not touching it.
Reminds me of the spider queen on Doctor Who *removed externally hosted image*
Because it's a lemmy.dbzer0.com image I see...
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Oh dang. Here you go: the Empress of the Racnoss