and i sure didnt know a picture of the underside was a good idea..i remember the eyes after i had let her go..but..i will have to go back tomorrow and try for a shot..also i dont understand the lingo so i sit here going uhhh...but im sure eventually ill learn it.
in the meantime its dohickys and thingamajigs. and how did you make her hold still for that?

these large orb weavers usually play dead when they are out of the web, so this one was easy. Other types of spiders can be much more challenging... so I use a plastic bag with those.

she crawled soooo fast up my arm and i was trying to scoop her into a tupperware,,im still cringing..it was all i could do not to flip her. she was a horrible subject.

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well I don't normally put them in my hand! I just use a stick to roll them over on the ground. :) Anyway. This shot is helpful. I can't see they epigynum well enough to tell if it's triangular or not. Rod Crawford recently said it's almost always the cat-faced in the Columbia River Basin and you are very close to that region.

epigynum?
ill go get another picture in the morning..actually i am in the rogue basin, so who knows.
but it is a lovely spider. you know i think the first image i ever had on here was of a spider parasite a really funny little fly, which was hanging like a crysilas..i wonder if thats what happened to your big spider? i have allways liked these big spiders and the jumpers..but you probably know moths are my thing.