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nursery web spider? - Dolomedes vittatus - female
Copyright © 2018 Vicki DeLoach

nursery web spider? - Dolomedes vittatus - Female
Gibbs Gardens, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA
August 31, 2018
Size: 5"+ including legs
possible Pisaurina mira? huge, tan spider in a roundish den enclosed with webs and containing masses of tiny baby spiders ... next to a pond but that seemed incidental ... surprised we've never seen one before
Contributed by Vicki DeLoach on 1 September, 2018 - 9:53am
Last updated 1 September, 2018 - 4:26pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… wolfpacksved, 1 September, 2018 - 4:26pm

Reasonably common by us
Usually crawling through the leaf litter. Except at nesting time when leaves webbed together such as in your image are fairly common in the woods.
… john and jane balaban, 1 September, 2018 - 12:18pm

Yes,
looks like Pisaurina mira to us too
… john and jane balaban, 1 September, 2018 - 10:04am

 
thanks!
Thanks you all! Are these uncommon spiders? We're in the field all the time - they're huge - and we've never seen one. Have a good holiday weekend ...
… Vicki DeLoach, 1 September, 2018 - 11:32am

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