"Some people believe author E.B. White may have based the title character in the classic children's book, Charlotte's Web, on a species of orb spiders living in his Maine barn.
"Members of the family Araneidae, orb
spiders are also called 'writing' or 'scribbling' spiders due to their
behavior of spinning decorations into their webs.
"'That’s exactly what Charlotte did,' said Kathy Murray, entomologist
with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. 'No
one knows if [E.B. White] actually based her on spiders in his barn,
but he did live in Maine and he'd have had orb spiders in that barn.'"
A recent Bangor Daily News article offered an overview of orb spiders (and spiders in general) and their webs.
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