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Spider - Micrathena mitrata
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Spider - Micrathena mitrata
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 29, 2007
Size: ~6 mm
If there hadn't been a leaf hanging from this spider's web, I would have ended up walking right through it. The spider had constructed a web across a wide path in the park. Is this from the Genus Micrathena?

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Spider - Micrathena mitrata Spider - Micrathena mitrata
Contributed by Ilona L. on 30 August, 2007 - 12:56am
Last updated 8 December, 2010 - 5:28pm

Micrathena sp.
This is shaped like M. m*itrata but doesn't have the black marks that the ones in the guide do... so maybe another species?
… joot, 30 August, 2007 - 3:38pm

 
Yes
this is M. mitrata.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 30 August, 2007 - 4:34pm

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