Little black dress
Some species of spiders can vary a lot in coloration from one individual to another.
That is the case for the Nephilengys cruentata, which in this picture is almost entirely black, but in a picture I posted here before, can be seen having a good deal of yellow.
The black variation reminds me a lot of the black widow. It would be impossible to mistake them in real life though, as the N. cruentata is about 2 or 3 inches in diameter, while the black widow is really tiny.
I like this picture because it shows the web tunnel I described in my previous post about the N. cruentata. There are also little exuvium (old exoskeletons from little spiders that molted) stuck to the web.
Little black dress by The Bug Lady, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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