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Bowl and Doily Spider
The Bowl and Doily Spider (Frontinella communis) is a species of sheet weaver spider. Its web is a fairly complex system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web (bowl), suspended above a horizontal sheet-like web (doily), hence the common name. The spider hangs from the underside of the “bowl”. The spider bites through the web and eats small flies, gnats and other small insects that fall down into the non-sticky webbing. The web is often built in weedy fields and in shrubs. The web may often contain both a male and female in the late summer. Photo Copyright and Credit
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