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By - kwixted0
Posted on October 7, 2022October 7, 2022
Posted in Arachtober

#Arachtober: Funnel Weaver Friday

It’s Friday, so let’s celebrate some of our local spiders that make pretty intense webs: funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae). At the time of this posting (Oct 2022), ten species of Agelenids have been identified in Maryland. Agelenids typically build a a horizontal, sheet-like web with a funnel on one side (hence their common name). Like most

By - kwixted0
Posted on October 6, 2022October 7, 2022
Posted in Arachtober

#Arachtober: Charlotte’s Web

Charlotte’s Web was one of my favorite movies as a child. I LOVED watching it over and over again, but I missed how much spider biology was intricately woven into the movie and novel. Did you know? Charlotte’s full name was Charlotte A. Cavatica. She was modeled after the barn spider (Araneus cavaticus). Wonderfully enough,