Penelope Periwinkle wrote in message
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http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/b...20aurantia.htm


http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/b...oaxacensis.htm

http://www.phorid.net/spiders/gallery.htm

and then

http://pep.wsu.edu/pdf/PLS116_1.pdf

Does that help any?

Yes! Thank you. I think it's either the Golden Orb Weaver or the
Jeweled Araneus. Either way, it was large, fast, and entirely to
In-Your-Face-Human for me.

The Ranger