Name: Larissa
Species: Orchard Orbweaver Leucauge venusta
Kingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Leucauge
Range:
Color: Distinctive red/orange markings. Length for the female is about 1 cm.
Reference: Florida Nature

This young lady was in Benita's yard, a colorful spider, much smaller in size to the golden silk spider (Nephila clavipes), and appears to be Leucauge venusta .

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So here she is (click the image for the full presentation):

Looking down - the web was not perpendicular to earth plane, but tilted.

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