This awesome Golden-Silk Spider (Nephila clavipes) lives in Louisiana and other southern United States. It is producing silk out of glands in the end of its abdomen called spinnerets. The Golden-Silk Spider is one of many large, Orb-Weaving Spiders in North America.
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