Post by BuckSkin on Sept 22, 2021 3:03:25 GMT
This spider, or some of his relatives, for many years, insists on building a web across our doorway.
Sometimes, I forget and head out the door, and it's like getting a big sticky fish net wrapped around my head.
We keep the broom right beside the door = open the door, grab the broom, wipe away the web, --- and it is rebuilt and waiting the next trip in or out.
Yellow-banded Orb Weaver Spider (Araneidae)
Tan to dark brown, some have colorful patterns.
Long skinny legs with a dark colored violin-shaped mark on the cephalothorax, or top of its body.
The Yellow-banded Orb Weaver has only six eyes instead of the usual eight.
They like porches and gardens; sometimes, they’ll build a web in a doorway or window sill.
They are expert web builders; no other spider makes a more organized and grid-like web.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day.
Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day; generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location; thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of detritus common to other species webs.
They are almost always found inside their webs.
Sometimes, I forget and head out the door, and it's like getting a big sticky fish net wrapped around my head.
We keep the broom right beside the door = open the door, grab the broom, wipe away the web, --- and it is rebuilt and waiting the next trip in or out.
Yellow-banded Orb Weaver Spider (Araneidae)
Tan to dark brown, some have colorful patterns.
Long skinny legs with a dark colored violin-shaped mark on the cephalothorax, or top of its body.
The Yellow-banded Orb Weaver has only six eyes instead of the usual eight.
They like porches and gardens; sometimes, they’ll build a web in a doorway or window sill.
They are expert web builders; no other spider makes a more organized and grid-like web.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day.
Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day; generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location; thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of detritus common to other species webs.
They are almost always found inside their webs.
