Red-sided (Missing) Sector Orb Weaver

The Red-sided (Missing) Sector Orb Weaver is an attractive red relative of the (Silver-sided) Missing Sector. Their orb webs also always have a sector missing from the orb.

The Red-sided (Missing) Sector Orb Weaver with Cellar Spider prey.

Ambitious Red-sided (Missing) Sector Orb Weaver with Bluebottle prey. As they get older and browner, they can resemble the (Silver-sided) Missing Sector spider.

The story: Red-sided Spider was in heavily-webbed lair by the side of her missing sector orb in yew hedge in garden. To see her, I threw a yew leaf onto the web (row 1); she felt the line shake and immediately dashed out to investigate the prey. Then returned to her lair disappointed and hungry. I felt guilty. I freshly-killed one of the many small cellar spiders webbing up the garage (there are tens and maybe hundreds more in there) and put it gently on her web. She dashed out again and attended to it. I also added an already dead bluebottle from the cellar spiders' stores to her web. Again, she investigated it. Then she took the cellar spider body from her web back to her lair and sat with it. She was happy and I had made amends.