Cyclosa spider

Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2012.

Cyclosa spiders are in the Araneidae family and are orb-web weavers.  They build a stabilimentum with debris (often old prey remains) to their web and use it to camouflage.

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