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applesauce Sterling Heights, MI Sep 24, 2008

This spider was eating bees that were flying around my pear tree. I'm in southeast Michigan. For size reference, that's a bee in it's fangs.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Sep 24, 2008

It's an orb weaver called a Cross Spider, Araneus diadematus. Great pic!

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/1185/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_garden_spider

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Sep 24, 2008

wow that is really cool

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