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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae) » Pisaurina » Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira)
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Fen Spiderlings - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2015 Tim Turner

Fen Spiderlings - Pisaurina mira
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio, USA
August 16, 2015
I assume these are newly hatched spiderlings, observed swarming on five stems emerging from shallow water. Hundreds of them crowded to the ends of the stems, where my 23-year-old daughter saw individuals ballooning away (I was never looking in the right place at the right time with the camera). An hour later we passed by the same spot, and they were all gone. Is it possible to ID them more closely than "spiders"? Photographed along the boardwalk at the Siebenthaler Fen.

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Contributed by Tim Turner on 17 August, 2015 - 10:41pm
Last updated 9 May, 2023 - 8:30am

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Laura P., 20 August, 2015 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

We're not sure whether we learned yet how to tell
Pisaurina from Dolomedes. Maybe one of the spider experts knows the answer.
… john and jane balaban, 17 August, 2015 - 11:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Family Pisauridae
I have photographed many Dolomedes triton at the Siebenthaler Fen. Should I move to the Family page for expert attention, or leave the photos where they are? I see there is an Unidentified Juveniles page there too.
… Tim Turner, 18 August, 2015 - 7:38am login or register to post comments

 
I think ...
Dolomedes looks more like the adult form than P. mira does, these look like they might be P. mira to me but I can't be sure.
Dolomedes:

P. mira:
… Laura P., 20 August, 2015 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

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