What kind of spider is this?

DanTMWTMP

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http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/tarheelmm/spider.jpg

fixed link for the lazy :p

anyways, i'd hate to bring up this subject, but whatever happened to our spidermember? :confused:

and isn't that pattern in your first pic is for the purpose of reflecting UV light, which bees and such can detect and attracted to, so they can get caught in the web?
 

desk

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it's reinforcing it's web so that it can trap little children when they come to play on the 'little tikes' swingset.
 

Wallydraigle

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It's a female Argiope aurantia. She's sucking the liquified tissues from an insect that she has caught.
 

SWScorch

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Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
It's a female Argiope aurantia. She's sucking the liquified tissues from an insect that she has caught.

I always just called them Garden Spiders... geek :D
 

NiKeFiDO

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i believe it's wrapping its little future devil-spawn into one of those balls spiders like to make that burst into a zillion little spiders of which only a few survive.

on a side note, last time i went to pics.bbzzdd.com, this spider pic was on the home page as one of the most recently uploaded ones (which is funny bc the first thing into my head was this has to be some ATOTers picture)
 

sandorski

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There are only 2 types of spiders: 1) Living 2) Dead. The one shown seems to be of the Living.

God, the Intelligence, or merely Evolution has granted you with great powers of transformation. I suggest you use that power to transform this spider to the Dead variety, because it is ultimately You or It!