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large brown Nursery Spider with egg sac - Pisaurina mira - female
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Schimming

large brown Nursery Spider with egg sac - Pisaurina mira - Female
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
May 25, 2005
Not sure on the size, but it was a big one. I would guess in the inch range. This spider had made a "tipi" out of leaves...and I got this shot from the bottom opening by lifting it up with a stick. The legs on this spider are very long!

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large brown Nursery Spider with egg sac - Pisaurina mira - female Monster Spider - Pisaurina mira - female Monster Spider - Pisaurina mira - female
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 26 May, 2005 - 12:33pm
Last updated 19 May, 2008 - 2:39pm

Nursery web spider female.
This is a female nursery web spider, family Pisauridae (also includes the fisher spiders), but I can't tell what genus or species. This is the only time she will spin a web. Otherwise they hunt on foot (tarsi?)
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