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The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella communis) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America. It is a small spider, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, that weaves a fairly complex sheet web system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web, or "bowl", suspended above a horizontal sheet web, or "doily", hence its common name. The spider hangs from the underside of the "bowl", and bites through the web small flies, gnats and other...

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1. (c) Bill Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/forktail/14532460033/
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontinella_pyramitela

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