That's a Golden Orb spider. We had a whole crop hatch out this summer, and now have one grand dame living on our back portal. We feed her moths.
--Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com>wrote: > Hoping there's someone on this list that knows something about spiders in > New Mexico... There were two of these hanging out just on the outside of my > house in Santa Fe. One had made a large somewhat circular web about 2 ft > across. At night it would sit in the middle, during the day it would hide > in a corner. You can get an idea of the size from the tines of the dining > fork. I think they are big. I've not yet been successful in finding > anything online that seems to come any where close. Any ideas on what type > it is, should I be worried? > > Let me know if you'd like a higher res. image. > > Thanks, > Robert C > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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