Araneus gemmoides relatively large abdomen. Their color changes from summer to winter. The female will die within days of laying a single egg sac with hundreds of eggs. Egg sacs can survive over winter, and the emerging spiderlings will eat their brothers and sisters. The babies ride strands of silk in warm air currents, able to transport them to locations miles away. Araneus gemmoides Araneus gemmoides, commonly known as the jewel spider (a name shared with "Austracantha minax") and cat-faced spider (a name shared with "Araneus gemma"), is a common outdoor orb-weaver spider found in the USA and Canada. They are considered
Hyas coarctatus of the walking legs is often more or less furry. "H. coarctatus" is found at both hard, stony, sandy and soft bottoms from 1 to 500 meters depth, though most often above 50 meters. "H. araneus" inhabits shallower depths. "H. coarctatus" is widely distributed in the North-East Atlantic and adjacent seas. The northern border is around the north and west coas5w of Spitsbergen and Barents Sea, in the south it is found down to the north-east coast of France, and in the east to the Western Baltic Sea, the Belt Sea and the Öresund. Hyas coarctatus Hyas coarctatus is a