Mist it with water first.

 

Put in little bits of hamburger near him in the web.

 

Use tweezers.....please

 

he shows no fear when I get really close

Let him take a bite, suck some blood. He's small and won't take much.

-R

 

It is called a "night time orb weaver" or "garden orb weaver"
http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/resources/garden-orb-weavers/
http://www.carolinanature.com/spiders/neosconacrucifera.html

Most of them will look like this:

I have colorful ones around my house. Here's a photo I took last fall on a window sill. The size of the yellow part was about like a quarter. Very cool spiders.

 

Early morning when there is dew on it and try to get a dark background. A light at night might highlight the web, but do it at an angle so you're not lighting up the background. You need the contrast between the background and the web.

Here's one I posted from a year ago. I wasn't trying to capture the web, just the orb weaver. Beautiful webs though...

 

Early morning when there is dew on it and try to get a dark background.

Here's one I posted from a year ago. I wasn't trying to capture the web, just the orb weaver. Beautiful webs though.

That one is a Garden spider or Writing spider. They are good ones too.

 

I'll second orb weaver. We have on on the back porch. They usually leave a line hanging during the day that they use to start back on the web at night. They usually hang out at the end of that main line if they are not on the web.

 

Jaker, that's him in the first (top) photo. There's nothing special about his web it's just that he takes it down every morning and I don't wind up walking through it when I take Lucy outside. That's why I call him the "polite spider".....
I did "feed" him a couple of moths when I first found him and he just runs over and wraps them up. I guess saving them for a snack later....
Plus the fact that his web is in the middle of the yard, 15 feet to the closest tree limb overhead and he anchors to the grass. Kind of strange.... But cool...

 

Jaker, that's him in the first (top) photo. There's nothing special about his web it's just that he takes it down every morning and I don't wind up walking through it when I take Lucy outside. That's why I call him the "polite spider".....
I did "feed" him a couple of moths when I first found him and he just runs over and wraps them up. I guess saving them for a snack later....
Plus the fact that his web is in the middle of the yard, 15 feet to the closest tree limb overhead and he anchors to the grass. Kind of strange.... But cool...

I believe they inject an enzyme that breaks down the tissue. They come back when the slurpie is done.

 

We have one on our deck, been there all summer. Sometimes those Orb Weavers will build their web very high, such as at the peak of a house roof and they'll somehow connect it to the top of a tree in the yard. We had one at our first house that did this every evening. The web was probably twenty feet long from the house to the tree and about twenty feet from the ground.

 

We had this guy at work for a week or two until some idiot killed it.

 

Took this on a job-site yesterday morning. The web got coated with sheetrock dust so it really stood out.

 

The brown spiders that build webs at night, I've always called a "frost spider" since they're most active in the fall. I picked up the name from some old fart I used to hunt with. I don't know what their proper name is.

 

I had one a couple of years ago that was building its webs across the porch, blocking my front door. After two or three days of going out through the garage in the morning I finally removed all traces of that day's web. It built its next web about four feet further down the porch, away from the door, and we got along just fine after that.