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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Mesh Web Weavers (Dictynidae)
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Dictynidae - Mesh Web Weaver
Copyright © 2016 MJ Hatfield

Dictynidae - Mesh Web Weaver
Quarry Prairie, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
November 1, 2016
Size: 2- mm
found in prairie seed that was collected last month
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 1 November, 2016 - 8:30pm
Last updated 13 November, 2016 - 7:01pm

We get tons of tiny weevils
on our Lobelia seeds
… john and jane balaban, 1 November, 2016 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… MJ Hatfield, 1 November, 2016 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

Looks to be
one of the Dictynidae. We get lots of these when we collect Ratibida pinnata seedheads. The make their webs around the heads.
… john and jane balaban, 1 November, 2016 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
I've started, barely, confining seeds of one species to a container, covering with material, and seeing what appears. I did it successfully with rose hips and had hundreds of tiny red wasps. Good way to find plant associated weevils as well (if the spiders don't get them).
… MJ Hatfield, 1 November, 2016 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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