# What kind of spider is this?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 5, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-spider-is-this/320245 "2005-09-05T21:41:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-spider-is-this/320245/1 "2005-09-05T21:41:52Z")

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I saw the neatest spider yesterday spinning a web in my pecan tree yesterday - saw him again today but I think the wind got him because this afternoon he was gone, and so was his web.

[Blurry picture](http://flickr.com/photos/62555962@N00/40580779/)

[Another blurry picture](http://flickr.com/photos/62555962@N00/40580777/)

Sorry about the pictures, he was really hard to photograph! He was little, and spun a “typical web” web with three anchors and a spiral in the middle, and his body was black on the bottom and white on the top with those weird spikes. He looked more like a sea creature than a land creature! Surely one of the arachnophiles here knows what he is - I’ve never seen anything like him!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-spider-is-this/320245/2 "2005-09-05T22:20:57Z")

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It’s a [spiny orb weaver.](http://wildflowers.jdcc.edu/Spiny_Orb.html)