Spiders of UW

Nighttime. Weather and temp. does not seem to matter except when it get s in the 30s F.
The Orb Spider is my friend named Keith. He lives on my third story window pane (on the outside) on 47th. He is small enough that I believe he is male. It is hard to get a good look at him to tell exactly what he is. He looks brownish and he has a white diamond on his back. His web is all the way across the windowpane.
The next spider looked more like a sort of crab spider perhaps. There is a very small post area blocking off a small pond from the road on the way to the Union Bay Natural Area, and there were at least 5 separate spiders and more webs on this post. They were all of the same kind. They were brown and cream speckled. Their webs seemed kind of thick and were mostly in corners.
The Striped Spider I saw was in the Union Bay Area walking on the ground in the dry grass. He had a sort of pointy oval body and had a large brown stripe down his back. He blended very well into the grass.

Posted on May 3, 2012 11:07 AM by wellska