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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona) » Neoscona crucifera
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Dolomedes spp.? - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2013 Talinum

Dolomedes spp.? - Neoscona crucifera
Spring Grove, Lake Couty County, Illinois, USA
August 12, 2013
Size: 1 inch including legs
First half of our year has been extremely wet in Northern Illinois. We have noticed quite a number of these spiders around the outside of the house, on our cars, and in the lower parts of the forest trees. Just curious if it is a fishing spider or something else.
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Contributed by Talinum on 1 October, 2013 - 6:35pm
Last updated 2 October, 2013 - 7:25am

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Moved from ID Request. If you have a ventral view it's nice to have both dorsal & ventral views when IDing spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 2 October, 2013 - 7:25am login or register to post comments

There's a nice free downloadable guide
to the Chicago Region Spiders put together by some of the BugGuiders available from the Field Museum here. It's not comprehensive, but it might give you a beginning feel for some of these.
… john and jane balaban, 1 October, 2013 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

A fishing spider would be out actively hunting
not sitting in a web. This is an orb weaver in the genus Neoscona, likely N. crucifera
… john and jane balaban, 1 October, 2013 - 7:05pm login or register to post comments

 
great!
Thanks John and Jane. I was just searching through orb weavers for a different i.d. and came across a picture that looked identical to this one. These guys, fishing spiders and wolf spiders really throw the novice for a loop! thanks again.
… Talinum, 1 October, 2013 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

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