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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Aculepeira » Aculepeira packardi
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Aculepeira? (thanks for the ID help) - Aculepeira packardi
Copyright © 2011 Scott Cox

Aculepeira? (thanks for the ID help) - Aculepeira packardi
Mount Burdell, Novato, Marin County, California, USA
April 22, 2011
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Contributed by Scott Cox on 25 April, 2011 - 4:43pm
Last updated 17 January, 2013 - 8:56am

Moved
Moved from Aculepeira. ID based on range and dorsal pattern.
… Lynette Elliott, 17 January, 2013 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Aculepeira packardi is the only one Steve Lew lists for CA, but it's either young or an unusual specimen. It looks more like the undescribed species that Rod has told me about here in WA.
… Lynette Elliott, 2 May, 2011 - 6:06pm login or register to post comments

Am I the only one...
...who's curious what the frothy mass is? :-)
… Harsi S. Parker, 26 April, 2011 - 1:51am login or register to post comments

 
I assumed
… John R. Maxwell, 26 April, 2011 - 7:29am login or register to post comments

 
Good assumption!
That does seem most likely... I had also considered something like this:



But, the empidids probably don't just leave those "nuptial gifts" lying around. :-)
… Harsi S. Parker, 26 April, 2011 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Spittlebug
I just assumed the froth to be from spittlebugs; it looks the same as what my wife finds in her garden.
… Scott Cox, 26 April, 2011 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

We would have made the same suggestion
as Max - Aculepeira
… john and jane balaban, 25 April, 2011 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

Any other views
I was considering Aculepeira, but I'm not sure at all.
… John R. Maxwell, 25 April, 2011 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

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