I live in West Virginia. I found an odd arachnid on my front screen door. Unfortunately, I killed it as I was trying to capture it in a plastic jar.
It has eight legs. Its head and body is half an inch long, front to back. The head and legs are sort of a dark orange-red color.
The top part of the body is mostly a yellow color, narrow at the arachnid's waist and broadening toward the rear, where two ~ 2.5 mm "horns" appear, one pointing toward after and left, the other pointing toward after and right.
Additionally, there are two smaller "horns" (< 1 mm) pointing upward at about the center of the body.
The underside of the arachnid has a mound at the rear, between the two backward pointing horns, which looks somewhat like the rear part of a wasp's body.
The yellow coloring occurs primarily on the top part of the body. The underside of the body is mainly dark colored, dark brown or black, with faint and narrow yellow strips.
The bug is colorful! And the shape is somewhere in between spider and wasp, with those "horns" thrown in for good measure. And I think that it was able to spin a silk thread to hang down from. Does anyone have an idea what this thing is?
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