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Nursery web spider - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2014 Maria de Bruyn

Nursery web spider - Pisaurina mira
Chapel Hill, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
September 28, 2014
This spider was approaching and backing off a group of large milkweed bugs.

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Nursery web spider - Pisaurina mira Nursery web spider - Pisaurina mira
Contributed by Maria de Bruyn on 30 November, 2014 - 6:00pm
Last updated 1 December, 2014 - 6:17am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Maria de Bruyn, 1 December, 2014 - 6:17am

Looks rather to be
Pisaurina mira
… john and jane balaban, 30 November, 2014 - 7:23pm

 
Nursery web spider
Thanks. If I could see the eyes better, that would help distinguish it from wolf spiders, I've now read. And I think that wolf spiders are more often on the ground. I'm learning but slowly.
… Maria de Bruyn, 1 December, 2014 - 6:16am

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