Female spotted orbweaver, Neoscona crucifera, a spider with a soft burnt-orange body with slightly darker markings, and cream and dark brown banded legs with orange femurs. She's hanging upside down in her orb web. Out of focus behind her is a sign (on a brown wood fence) that's still readable: BEWARE OF DOG. (It was hard to get a photo without the sign, but I kind of like it.) Photo by me from a neighborhood walk on November 16 2025.

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Silver garden orb weavers, Argiope argentata, hanging in orb web in front of the very spiky coastal cholla cactus, Cylindopuntia prolifera. Male (top) is 4mm (body length), ventral side visible, body brown with 2 eggshell-white markings, 1 on each side, shaped like quotation marks. Female (below) is 24mm (body length), dorsal side visible, body silver, abdomen with dark orange and black markings and fat rounded projections around the outside edge. Both have legs banded with light and dark gray. After mating the male will try to flee the web, but the female may catch and eat him. Full sequence of mating, with pics: https://www.nps.gov/cabr/blogs/a-day-in-the-short-life-of-the-male-silver-argiope-argiope-argentata-1.htm I've wanted to get pics of the 2 together for a long time, and was over the moon when I found these. (Still am.) From a late afternoon walk at Calavera Ecological Preserve on November 14.

Good morning from a silver garden orbweaver and her much smaller suitor! (It may not end well for him, but so it goes.)
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Female green lynx spider, Peucetia viridans, hanging head down from a spent flower cluster (with a ripening green pod visible) on narrowleaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis. Her coloration is amazing (like nothing I've ever seen). Her abdomen is mottled with dark eddish-purple on the sides, and the dorsal side has a thick purple and white stripe of chevrons down the center, flanked in either side by a white stripe. Her cephalothorax is a soft light green with a few thin dark red-purple stripes. Her long legs are yellowish white and translucent, with fine black hairs sticking out all over, and dark reddish-purple spots on the femurs, She's feeding on a European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and is gravid and looks about ready to pop! There were fields of the milkweed on both sides of the trail, with green lynx spiders of various sizes and colors. I took a lot of pictures! From an early evening walk at Calavera Ecological Preserve, about a mile east of Lake Calavera. Photo by me.

Good morning from the most beautiful green lynx spider I've ever seen, in Calavera Ecological Reserve.
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Orbweaver spider hanging head down in her web, dark red body, reddish-orange legs with darker red bands, in front of out-of-focus green bushes with red flowers. There were European honeybees (Apis mellifera) visiting the flowers, and several caught and wrapped out at the edge of the web. (None of the bees are visible in the photo.) From a morning walk in Vista, California, September 2, 2022. Photo by me.

Good morning!
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The underside view of a large female Banded Garden spider. It is mainly black and yellow, its long legs are colored with alternating black and yellow bands. The topside of its abdomen has larger black and yellow bands. The spider is an orb web weaver meaning it spins concentric round silk threads for a web instead of a tangled web.

I heard #arachvember might be a thing -
So here is our awesome Banded Garden spider still hanging out 🥰

Such a good orb web weaver! This might be two weeks now in the same location. #arachnids

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Janet Hill above suggested #Arachvember, which I'm going to use. I have so many arachnid photos (spider and otherwise) I didn't have time to post!

Yes, I think you made the right choice there 😂. Also, #Arachvember... why not?

Figured she’d be a better ambassador than a big ol’ Brazilian Wandering Spider. lol

(I have many more spiders. I could do #Arachvember).