First off I want to say, thanks for nothing. I'm still singing There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza. No one helped me out removing that irritating song from my head. We went to see a great concert the other night where some awesome soloists sang selections from Les Miserables. I thought for sure that would do the job. Nope. As I type this I have earphones in and listening to some of my favorites on Spotify.
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Yesterday I grabbed a piece of wood and found a pale pink egg/cocoon-like thing stuck to it. I pulled it off the board and then saw that it had been attached to a beautful orange spider.
The spider didn't run away and it was very slow moving. I thought I had killed it by removing the egg but it didn't shrivel up so I think it was in hibernation, cold, scared or pretending to be dead. I know nothing about spiders. I Googled Orange Spiders in VA. There was only one spider that slightly resembled the one I'd found; the pumpkin spider. When I looked up pumpkin spiders most of the pictures that came up were jackolanterns carved with spiders in them. This is the only thing I found that looked anything like my spider but it still wasn't exactly like it. It's also known as a marbled orbweaver. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/11/11/pumpkin-spider/
Any spider experts out there reading my blog?
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Yesterday I grabbed a piece of wood and found a pale pink egg/cocoon-like thing stuck to it. I pulled it off the board and then saw that it had been attached to a beautful orange spider.
The spider didn't run away and it was very slow moving. I thought I had killed it by removing the egg but it didn't shrivel up so I think it was in hibernation, cold, scared or pretending to be dead. I know nothing about spiders. I Googled Orange Spiders in VA. There was only one spider that slightly resembled the one I'd found; the pumpkin spider. When I looked up pumpkin spiders most of the pictures that came up were jackolanterns carved with spiders in them. This is the only thing I found that looked anything like my spider but it still wasn't exactly like it. It's also known as a marbled orbweaver. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/11/11/pumpkin-spider/
Any spider experts out there reading my blog?
http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Marbled-Orb-Weaver
ReplyDeleteI think the best descriptive clue is the black and white striped legs.