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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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Medium sized, light organge spider with a darker orange stripe down it back in Massachusetts. - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2009 alysonlouise

Medium sized, light organge spider with a darker orange stripe down it back in Massachusetts. - Pisaurina mira
Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
October 9, 2009
Size: appx. 2-2 1/2 inches long
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Contributed by alysonlouise on 9 October, 2009 - 3:29pm
Last updated 9 October, 2009 - 5:06pm

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… john and jane balaban, 9 October, 2009 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

looks like Nursery Web Spider - Pisaurina mira
That certainly is colorful. Here's one I found, and another a bit more orangy. The background it's on has a bit of a color cast to it. I'm wondering if the color of the photo is skewed a bit warm? Maybe white balance a tiny bit off. Did it look orange like the fruit in life?
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… Andrew Williams, 9 October, 2009 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank You.
It was not color balanced at all, it was exactly that orange in real life. All I did was crop it so it got slightly grainy. I have never seen anything like it. The body appeared to almost have the texture of a catipillar, very strange.
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