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weaver

1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. Weavers of linen. .

2. (Science: zoology) A weaver bird.

3. (Science: zoology) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See whirling. Weaver bird, an East indian marine univalve shell (radius volva); so called from its shape.


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help with Spider ID please

It's an orb weaver, but not sure what kind. Maybe a cat's-face? Do you have these in BC?

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by Darby
Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:45 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: help with Spider ID please
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Recombination in RNA viruses,Ruzic,Kovac

... a way not just to recover information about recombination events that may have occurred long ago or are exceedingly rare (Snijder et al., 1991; Weaver et al., 1997), but also to probe the nest details of the mechanism itself (Banner & Lai, 1991; Olsthoorn & van Duin, 1996). They also ...

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by anakovacevic
Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:28 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Recombination in RNA viruses,Ruzic,Kovac
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Have you compared it to a Marbled Orb Weaver? They are often variable in size and coloration. Thanks for the reply. It's similar to the Marbled. The Shamrock Orb Weaver, linked above, is almost identical, excepting for color and some marbling ...

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by stevem
Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:54 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Can you identify this spider?
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Can you identify this spider?

Have you compared it to a Marbled Orb Weaver? They are often variable in size and coloration.

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by LittleBeaver
Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:12 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Can you identify this spider?
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Spider identification

It definatly looks like an orb weaver but there are hundreds of types of these over the globe, im from australia and this species looks very common to a spider we call garden orb weaver. No doubt after some research that this is of the Eriophora ...

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by futurezoologist
Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:23 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Spider identification
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