Araneus cavaticus


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Noun1.Araneus cavaticus - an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web dailyAraneus cavaticus - an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'"
barn spider
spider - predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
Aranea, Araneus, genus Aranea, genus Araneus - a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders
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Moult-related changes in ampullate silk gland morphology and usage in the araneid spider Araneus cavaticus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series B 340:25-38.
Sexual dimorphism in the spinning apparatus of Allocosa senex (Araneae: Lycosidae), a wolf spider with a reversal in typical sex roles
And, up in the corner was a great, fat, hairy gray barn spider (technically: Araneus cavaticus) measuring up to an inch-and-a-half from leg-tip to leg-tip.
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aurantia; GABamide, Townley & Tillinghast 1988 for Araneus cavaticus (Keyserling 1881)].
Molting interferes with web decorating behavior in Argiope keyserlingi (Araneae, Araneidae)

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