I have to do a research paper, and the first part is finding out what type of spider she is. If anyone could help me out that would be great. So far my research has told me that she is a garden spider....but my professor is looking for the specific type.
2006-12-15 05:56:03 · 5 answers · asked by Champagne115 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
From http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/bookchat/archives/charlotte/23.html
"Charlotte, Arachnida: The Scientific Sources
by Peter F. Neumeyer
Aranea cavatica (A. ca-vat i-ca).--This spider is dirty white in colour with grayish markings. The abdomen is clothed with numerous whitish or gray hairs, which give it in life a grayish appearance... This species, as its specific name indicates, prefers shady situations. Emerton states that it lives in great numbers about houses and barns in northern New England.. White would have known that this spider from Maine lived also
in Ithaca, New York, the site of White's own happy college years at Cornell. "
2006-12-15 15:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by feliciter audax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe this is helpful...
A barn spider is an orb-weaving spider. It lives in barns, caves, mine openings and overhanging cliffs. The barn spider can be found around houses and barns in the northeast part of the United States and Canada. It rebuilds its web every evening and sits at the center of it at night. It usually moves above the web during the day. The barn spider eats insects. When a flying insect gets tangled in the web it rushes to the prey and wraps it up with special silk before biting it. With the insect safely packaged up it can take its time before it starts the meal. The barn spider is a common resident of the Maine countryside, where E. B. White, the author of Charlotte's Web had a farm
2006-12-15 06:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by sunflower12687 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Charlotte is a Nursery Web Spider, of the Pisauridae family. They build a web around their eggsac and stand guard over it, as can be seen in the book. Web spiders do not use webs to catch prey, but as a protection for their nest. I believe there is a part in the book where one of her webs is ruined by a fly and she has to rebuild it, though it has been many years since i've read it.
2006-12-15 06:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is a garden orb web spider of the species Aranea Cavatica (or Araneus Cavaticus)
2006-12-15 06:10:20 · answer #4 · answered by bravokardia 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fictional!
Try to get the author, E.B. White to tell you. What I mean is, search around and see if he has said anything about that.
Also, you could get a copy of the book and see what information is available about the illustrations. The illustrator must have used something as a model.
2006-12-15 06:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by modulo_function 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋