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feather-legged spider - female
Copyright © 2001 Tom Adams

feather-legged spider - Female
Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
July 3, 2001
The trailing silken sacs serve to disguise the spider. I suppose one of the sacs contains eggs, but which one? It could be a shell game!
Contributed by Tom Adams on 23 April, 2004 - 9:43pm

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