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MARBLED ORB WEAVERS (2) -
Araneus
marmoreus
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Commonly called the marbled spider, this species belongs to one
of several genera of orb or orb weaver spiders that frequently are
found as adults on or around houses and other buildings from late
summer to fall. Adult female marbled spiders are 9-18mm long; some
other orb spiders are smaller and some larger. Most species live one
year, but some survive longer. Orb spiders are not aggressive and,
like the vast majority of spiders, are not dangerous to people.
Bites are rare and usually are no worse than a bee or wasp sting. |
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21 December, 2004:
Hi Glen,
I live in Stafford, Virginia. This spider to a ride on my business
van one day in the summer. We traveled about 75 miles and he hung on
the entire trip. Do you know what kind of spider he is? Thanks!
Judy May |
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November, 2004:
Please see attached picture of a beautiful Marbled Orb Weaver
that I took on 11/20/2004. Thought you may be interested in seeing
it.
Russell Farmer
Age 12
385 Wyldewoode Drive
McDonough, GA 30253Click for a
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November, 2004:
My husband found this girl under my ivy plants. We've never
seen a spider like this before in Ne. PA. Thanks for such a great
site.
Rich & Barberence.
Carolyn Rafferty |
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November, 2004:
Hi, My boys brought this spider to my attention at our
campsite in Fredericksburg, VA. I took a picture of it as I had
never seen anything quite so huge, yellow, or beautiful in spider
terms. We think it looks like an orb weaver. We saw a couple on your
site that looked similar but nothing exactly like it. The wood it is
on is picnic table and approx inches high for frame of reference.
Carolyn Rafferty |
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November, 2004:
Here is a pic of a spider I found on a hike in Maryland. The body
shape and leg colouring look similar to spiders I find in my
backyard, but I’ve never seen the yellow/black body. Can you shed
any light on this?
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November, 2004:
Photographed clinging to outside trim boards of front door in Belle
Haven Terrace (Fairfax County) Virginia, 2 Nov 05.
Temperature: 70F, Low humidity, Sunny and breezy
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November, 2004:
Found in Lewisberry, PA. Oct 29, 2004.
Click for a larger view.
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November, 2004:
Can you identify this spider... It was in my front yard in
Virginia. The eastern shore, please get back to me if you can
identify this spider.
Thanks,
John |
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October, 2004:
Thought you might appreciate this guy we found “hanging
around” the corner of my son’s porch.
Click for a larger view.
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October, 2004:
This little guy was found 4 days before Halloween in Indiana,
quite festive really. The best I can figure is it is an orb weaver,
otherwise just very interesting. Is this correct? Thanks
Andrwe |
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October, 2004:
Attached Pic of garden orb Weaver taken today. I Like the
death's head marking on the stomach.
Elaine Hoy
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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October, 2004:
Saw this spider, but not seeing one like it totally on the
site - any idea what it is?
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
Hi Glen, I found your website while seaching Google for
spiders. My husband found this spider while painting the house
yesterday and today he found another on on the other side of the
house. I did notice the photos at the top of your web page the
fifth spider over looks the same. Is this a Bolas spider?
Please respond when you have a moment.
Thank you, Lori Quaderer
Johnsburg, IL
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
Glen,
I'm trying to identify this spider found at my daughter's house.
Thank you.
Lesa
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
Hi there, Here is a couple photos of a spider living outside
on my front porch. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos. She is
much brighter in "real-life", her abdomen is a bright yellow, and
her legs are bright orange, almost neon colors. Her abdomen appears
to be oval in the picture, but it is really very fat and round. It's
over an inch long. If anyone knows what kind of spider this is, or
if it is dangerous, please let me know.
I'm in Caledonia, Ontario.
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
Could you help me by telling me where I could identify this
spider. It was on my porch in Knoxville, TN.
Thank you.
Lesa
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
While my coworkers and I were outside enjoying the sun at
lunch time we spotted this gorgeous spider, we are hoping that you
could help us identify it. We are located in Avon, Connecticut.
Thank you,
Jennifer
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
My name is Kyle Snedeker. I found this spider on September 14
2004, in north east PA in a small town called Brooklyn. I work in a
stone quarry, and I found the spider on one of my pallets. Can you
please help identify this spider? My email address is
TheCarsThatBOOM@hotmail.com
Thank you
Kyle
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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September, 2004
I found this spider on my trailer at my campsite in Exeter,
Rhode Island.
Reply: This is a marbled orb weaver. |
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30 August, 2004
Hi,
I need help identifying this spider. I live in Frederick County,
Maryland (USA). I found this spider and two other s just like it out
side my house. They are a little bigger than the top of your thumb.
(tip of thumb to knuckle). They have a yellow and black pattern on
the top of their abdomens and legs that are reddish orange near
their bodies and black and clearish striped in the middle and tips
of their legs. I have never seen these before. I am very curious to
find out what they are. They also have big strong webs. The one web
was about 2' to 3' feet in diameter. The spider was also very feisty
when trying to take pictures of it. I have 4 children so I would
really like to know if it is poisonous. Please look at the pictures
following. - Thanks, KD in MD
Reply: Looks like a marbled orb
weaver. |
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29 August, 2004
Your site is one of the best I've found on this so far. Like
most, I have a spider that I can not identify. In the very
least it may be a good one to add to the site. This was found
on my backpack during a hike in Cheaha, AL.
Reply: This is another marbled
orb weaver. |
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29 August, 2004
I was wondering if you could post these pictures on your
website, I was mowing the lawn in my home in upstate New York when I
stumbled upon this spider. I was wondering if anyone could help me
identify it also if they could tell me if it is dangerous. Anything
would help. Thank you for your time.
Amanda Leon
aleon65@yahoo.com
Reply: This is a marbled orb
weaver. |
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8 August, 2004
Hello!
After using the information on your site to identify these
spiders as marbled orb weavers, we thought that you would like to
have some pictures of them. The larger one has created a beautiful
web in the bedroom window, while the ones on the plate were found in
a nest under a porch umbrella. The nest looked a lot like a cigar
made out of mud, and at first we thought it was a bee’s nest, but
when it was opened, we found a whole nest of the marbled orb
weavers! There is one smaller than all the rest, and the entire body
is neon green, could you maybe explain why that is? Was this one
just not as developed as the rest? Any help you could give would be
greatly appreciated, thanks so much, we hope you enjoy the
pictures!!!
Lauren Kountz and Jess Zitowitz,
Clarksville, Maryland |
Reply: There seems to be a couple
of different sorts in the first pic. I once had another mud nest
like this sent in and it seemed that it was a wasps nest and the
spiders had been brought in as food for the baby wasps, so I wonder
if this is what has happened here. I don't think marbled orbweavers
build mud nests for the spiderlings |
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17 November, 2003:
Are Marbled Orb Weaver spider dangerous:
Attached is one of them photographed in “Chatahoochee park in
Atlanta”
Best Regards
Benjamin & Guillemette CARRIER |
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7 October, 2003:
The spider from oct 3rd 2003 on your ORB WEAVERS/GARDEN
SPIDERS page ,that you were missing a name for looks to be a Marbled
Orb Weaver Araneus marmoreus from what I can tell. Here is a photo I
took of one. |
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4 October, 2003:
can you tell me what this is and is it dangerous? thank you so much
for you time!
7 October, 2003:
Reply: Looks to be a
marbled orb weaver. |
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11 November, 2001: Found
this guy crawling up my basement wall. Thanks to your website, I was
able to identify him.
Thanks,
Webb Riley
Suwanee, GA
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Here's another Marbled Orb
Weaver. Pretty aren't they? 26
October, 2001
Here's 1 more spider pix , I took this one 2 days ago, thanks for a
great web site ,
Robert Vess
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September, 2001:
The spider with the orange legs and yellow and black marble body is
a marbled orb weaver. From: Bryce Saunders, Aiken, South Carolina.
4 September, 2001:
This spider is from New Hampshire, USA, from Mark
(Click for a beaut closeup)
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9 October, 2001:
Found this fearsome looking one near a bench on the deck. Does
not mind full sun. We live in the Pocono Mountains, Pa. I see
someone found one in NH too.
Marci Marcantonio
PS, just found a response about this one further down your page:
13 September, 2001:
The spider with the orange legs and yellow and
black
marble body is a marbled orb weaver. From: Bryce
Saunders, Aiken, South Carolina. But my next question is, "do
they bite humans or pets or in any way cause a negative physical
reaction? Thought you might like to see the photos I took anyway.
marci |
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Click here for
Page 1 of Marbled Orb weavers. |
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Orb weavers (Araneidae) are
often brightly coloured with
rounded abdomens, some with
peculiarly angled humps or
spines. However, there is
considerable variation in size,
colour and shape in this group.
They are often recognized for
building beautiful, large, round
webs, on which they rest, head
downward, waiting for prey.
The webs consist of a number
of radiating threads crossed by
two spirals. The inner spiral
begins in the centre, winds
outward, and is made of smooth
threads like the radiating
threads. It covers only the
central 1/3 of the web. The outer spiral begins at the edges
and winds inward. It is made of more elastic, sticky threads, coated with a liquid substance.
One of the largest and most commonly encountered members of this group is Argiope aurantia, the yellow garden spider
and we have photos of them on their 
