Latin name: Cyclosa conica
Came across this spider in a meadow in Short Hills provincial park. It's an Orb weaver that makes itself inconspicuous by hiding at the end of a line of its prey. Rather than jettisoning its prey it keeps them and uses them to form a line leading from the centre of the web to the outer edge. It hunches at the centre end of this line and in this way makes itself rather inconspicuous. Looking directly at it I almost missed it.
