Turquoise legged spider ID for college project! - Leucauge venusta

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… margarethe brummermann, 5 April, 2016 - 3:05am

Several ways you could try to identify your species

by yourself here on BugGuide. If you click on Search without putting anything into the box you will move deeper into search where you will see a tab for 'advanced search'. You can put 1954 into the taxon field (since that is the number you see in the url when you click on the base spider page) and click on March and North Carolina. Then see if your spider shows up in the results. Unfortunately it doesn't since you are the first person to submit this species for NC for March. But you can return to the search and replace March with April or NC with South Carolina, changing one of the search items to something close. Interestingly either of those changes will return an image of your spider if you can find it.
Secondly you could try putting in two words that best describes your specimen other than something obvious like 'spider' which won't help. We searched on 'translucent green' and on 'silver green' and got an image of your spider in both cases.
And finally, you are actually very fortunate in that your species has been chosen as one of the species that appears when you go to the info page for spiders. In addition to many links to spider identification pages, Leucauge appears right at the top of the page among the 12 images selected to show the diversity of spiders.
Good luck with your project and feel free to ask questions about tools for identifying insects and their relatives on your own.

… john and jane balaban, 4 April, 2016 - 8:22am

What is the project?

This is Leucauge venusta, Orchard Orbweaver

… john and jane balaban, 3 April, 2016 - 12:41pm

Thanks!

Ah, perfect, I was off! I'm in in entomology course and one of our final project is to identify a minimum of 5 insects or spiders on campus or in our preserve. But I greatly greatly appreciate your help and comment!

… tturench, 4 April, 2016 - 1:03am