The picture stinks I know this is the best my phone can do on a target moving in the wind at night. I can only ever find this spider at night webbed up between ours and a neighbors house. By day the majority of the web and the spider are gone leaving just the major anchors in place. It's kind of furry looking, large white abdomen with the 4 prominent dots on the top (there's more but 4 are more defined than the rest) and is about the size of an old 50 cent piece maybe a bit bigger (legs incl there). any ideas on a more specific identification?
CLOSED: Noctournal Spider. possible orbweaver?
This is an orb weaving spider (family Araneidae). The image is not clear enough to be certain, but this could be Eriophora ravilla, a species known as the tropical orbweaver - see http://tinyurl.com/26f3zjr; they are strictly nocturnal.
can the colors vary that widely? the white in my picture isnt whitewash it really is that color, im using the edge of a flashlight to light it while the camera shoots sans flash, because at that distance i would get whitewash.
I'll try for another pic tonight
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Most orb weavers, including Eriophora ravilla, can show considerable individual variation in color pattern; this can make identification from images problematical.
Based on these last two images, I am reasonably confident in calling this spider a tropical orb weaver, Eriophora ravilla.
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