Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

cat-faced spider

• May 28, 2008

  
  Rebecca Jensch
  46.707, -92.3631
  1    
  Added: May 28, 2008 at 8:30:59 PM MST

  I found a small cat-faced spider on my pole barn. She had her web just under a lip about waist high. She was sitting in the middle of her web.

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• Jan 1, 2008

  
  Sharon Liederman
  46.7042, -112.0545
  
  Added: Jan 1, 2008 at 11:21:37 PM MST

  I think this is a Araneus gemmoides.  Can anyone confirm this?  It came down from my ceiling on a string of silk.  I'm puzzled as to why it would be out at this time of year and in my house.  It's very beautiful.

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• Oct 6, 2007

  
  Virginia A. Lindgren
  44.3214, -92.3112
  1    
  Added: Oct 8, 2007 at 9:00:42 AM MST

  Large female on her web in an interior doorway of a barn.
  In the photo, she's perched on a 5-gallon bucket handle. 
  

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• Oct 5, 2007

  
  P.J. Turner
  41.1468, -95.9315
  1    
  Added: Oct 22, 2007 at 5:28:24 PM MST

  This little guy was on the inside of the window of our back porch.  He was only the second male I saw this season.

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• Sep 20, 2007

  
  P.J. Turner
  41.1468, -95.9315
  2    12    
  Added: Sep 20, 2007 at 8:33:05 AM MST

  

  These babies love my house.  All those listed have been right here, either attached to the house, or in my surrounding foliage.  I've even fortunate enough to see some of the young female spiderlings building

  The accompanying photo is my best shot this year. 

   

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• Sep 9, 2007

  
  Mike R Hixson
  49.8522, -119.6631
  1    
  Added: Sep 10, 2007 at 11:14:38 PM MST

  I think it's a female but don't know how to tell. It is about 1 1/2" in the body and the biggest spider I've ever seen outside a pet shop or zoo. It has 2 prominant humps on the abdomen and was busy wrapping / eating a cricket type of bug when my daughter found it under my overhang. Scary bugger but I don't think it is harmful to humans.

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• Jul 22, 2007

  
  James S. Edgar
  50.9282, -102.7898
  1    
  Added: Jul 24, 2007 at 10:06:01 AM MST

  We have a female cat-faced spider on a web at the corner of our picture window. It's fascinating to watch her attach the web to the glass, but even better, we watched her snare a honey bee and wrap it into a cocoon of her silk.

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• Jul 15, 2007

  
  Eradea M. Morwyntine
  40.9472, -124.1141
  1    
  Added: Jul 16, 2007 at 12:54:19 AM MST

   A large, female Araneus gemmoides, orb weaver spider has spun a large, impressive web in my bedroom window (outside of course!).

   

  Pics will come soon, so far she is only visible at night and I refuse to wander around my back yard at night due to the multitude of spiders in this area and my sensitivity ... I'll get a photo of her eventually!

   

  She is large, at least a centimeter and a half in length (minus legs). 

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• Jun 30, 2007

  
  David P. Shorthouse
  53.513, -113.4755
  
  Added: Jun 30, 2007 at 8:17:41 PM MST

  I didn't add a count for the number of males, females, or immatures because frankly, there are too many! Last autumn, I captured a gravid female and had her lay her egg case in a mason jar. I later let her free and then kept the pinkinsh egg case in the garage for the winter. Yesterday, the spiderlings hatched and they are now making their way out of the mason jar with the help of some sprigs of grass. Over the next few days, I'll be sure to get some better shots of the "slings" catching the breeze and ballooning away.

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• Aug 18, 2001

  
  John W Hancock
  49.083, -113.9668
  1    
  Added: Mar 12, 2007 at 5:27:37 PM MST

  One gravid female taken in a Engelmann spruce sweep. From Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Site, Crandell Lake @ 1550 m Mixed conifer closed forest, lakeside

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