Aug 142014
Walking Piney Woods Church Road late this afternoon, I noticed several new orb webs, glowing in the sunlight. I crouched down to get underneath one of them, placing myself between the web and the steep edge of the roadbank. The result was this photograph of a lovely spider, one that turned out to be a new (to me) species from a familiar genus. Earlier this year, I photographed a Spiny Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis). This one, though, is the White Micrathena (Micrathena mitrata). It is a common late-summer orb-weaving spider of the Southeastern Piedmont.
