Spider Species Gasteracantha cancriformis
Okay the tractor post is not even cold yet and I'm posting again, but I just had to put this up. We came across this spider on a web on the property this weekend. It's apparently commen from California to Florida but nothing like we'd ever seen. It looks like a crab with spiny appendages, hence the name. The little tuffs of cottony web along the web are a defense mechanism to allow birds to see the web and not fly through it. That's what I like about our property. You get to see nature in all it's glory and species likely long since killed off in our cities and urban areas. We have alot of pictures of unusual insects. One day we'll post all of those.
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