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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Oct 28, 2007

Its web is tough. The insect is hairy. Look at the flies sitting on the victim which is a bug. It has smothered the bug with web. In another shot, there are plenty of flies sitting on the spider's leg as well! Which is this?

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 16, 2008

One more pic... taken when dark.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 16, 2008

This spider is an orb weaver (family Araneidae), possibly in the genus Neoscona. The flies may be kleptoparasites hoping to ‘share’ the spiders’ meal. - see http://psyche.entclub.org/87/87-337.html

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 16, 2008

http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/araneus_heather.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.whatsthatbug.com/spiders.html&h=244&w=216&sz=7&hl=en&start=31&um=1&usg=__u8o2o7EQDEMriznuzyYuGmuiBNI=&tbnid=zxIX-cfOSehXzM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daranea%2Bneoscona%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Is there a clue here?

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