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Old 11-06-12, 06:16 PM   #1
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Spiny Backed Orb Weaving spider
I have heard that this spider has a ton of different names, but this seems to be the most common. I am suuper fearful of spiders, but this little guy has been living right outside my backdoor now for about two weeks, so he has kind of become a naturaly existing pet. I decided to try and take some pictures of Crabby today (Ive named him Crabby), but my camera is not to apt on taking macros. But I thought it would be cool to show him off anyway, since he is quite the looker. I only call him a he because males stay in the 2-3mm range and females get to the 10mm range, but I am not too versed on spiders so it would not surprise me if I was wrong. Hope you enjoy!


He has a really good looking web going, it's about 5'Wx3'H!
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Thats cool!!!
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Old 11-06-12, 06:30 PM   #3
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Thats cool!!!
Yea I cant get my wife on board with my snakes at all, but she wont let me relocate this guy, because she thinks he is cool, and will naturally move on when he wants too.
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He's beautiful!
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He's so tiny...and so pretty!

A long time ago there was an orb weaver that lived by my back door. I used to go sit on the steps and watch it (and I had a huge fear of spiders back then) all the time. Such a fascinating creature, even though I feared it! About 2 months after I discovered it, it was gone. I have no idea what happened to it but I hope it lived a nice long life.
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He's so tiny...and so pretty!

A long time ago there was an orb weaver that lived by my back door. I used to go sit on the steps and watch it (and I had a huge fear of spiders back then) all the time. Such a fascinating creature, even though I feared it! About 2 months after I discovered it, it was gone. I have no idea what happened to it but I hope it lived a nice long life.
They are really fascinating! I just moved a chair up next to it last night to watch him, and I got to see him feed!
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I had the ex throw a couple of insects on ours web so I could watch it feed.
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That is a really awesome-looking little spider. He really does look like a crab!
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