Need help with a spider ID

Goanna

Goanna

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A member on another forum posted a thread about a spider he found, and included some pics. He is curious to find out what species it may be. It came from Central Alabama in a wooded/swamp area. After he captured it, it ate 3 moths that he threw into the container he is keeping it in, lol.

Here are the pics. I know its not a recluse. It doesnt look like a brown widow, and its abdomen looks too round to be a brown house spider. Any ideas here?
 

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Bayushi

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don't know the scientific name, but we call them garden spiders here, seeing how they are usually found in gardens(redundancy,huh?). toss in a couple sticks for her to make a web on and she'll be happy as apig in mud....
 
shogun804

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i have no clue what it is but those spiders surround our house here in VA all the time, when i got out at night i can usually spot at least 5 or 6 massive webs under lights and under passes of of our house :)
 
GQ.

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It looks like a Neoscona sp., Orb Weaver spider. Try a web search for Neoscona. You should turn up some decent photos. :)
 
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GQ. said:
It looks like a Neoscona sp., Orb Weaver spider. Try a web search for Neoscona. You should turn up some decent photos. :)
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Of some ?good reason Neoscona is called "spotted orb weavers".
Try a search on Barn orbweaver (or Barn spider), Araneus cavaticus, but don´t trust any internet searches...

A list of common names of spiders is found at
http://www.americanarachnology.org/acn5.pdf
 
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