Gerald Klingaman The orb spiders are a large group of spiders that weave round, more or less symmetrical webs suspended in open-air spaces. The spotted orb weaver spider often builds her webs from the roof of a house down to a midpoint on the wall. As I write this, one is sitting patiently waiting on her web outside the office window. The females are the web weavers and they have a plump abdomen that is variously spotted with rusty-red or yellow-orange dots. References refer to it as less than an inch long, but I think size descriptions for spiders refer to the length of the body, not the span of their legs. 10 8 2021 Friday, October 8, 2021 8:21:32 AM PDT Wildlife,Interacting with Wildlife,Insects kmerritt@uada.edu