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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Long-jawed Orb Weavers (Tetragnathidae) » Metellina
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Web spider - Metellina
Copyright © 2008 SusannahA

Web spider - Metellina
Crescent Beach, British Columbia, Canada
October 3, 2008
Size: less than 1 inch, legs in
Found on clematis plant gone to seed, in Crescent Beach
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Contributed by SusannahA on 5 October, 2008 - 3:35am
Last updated 10 October, 2009 - 4:54pm

Moved
Moved from Orb Weavers.
… Lynette Elliott, 10 October, 2009 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

other side
do you have a pic of the back?
… Lynette Elliott, 5 October, 2008 - 9:37am login or register to post comments

 
pic of the back
No. That wasn't feasible; it would have entailed crawling into the bush or capturing the spider, and I didn't have any collecting equipment with me.

Sorry.
… SusannahA, 5 October, 2008 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

 
poke it with a stick
I poke them with a flower stem until they turn the right way.
… Lynette Elliott, 5 October, 2008 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

 
Sometimes that works. I touch
Sometimes that works. I touched a web by mistake on that bush, and the spider nearby ran up into the leaves above my head.

I really should have been carrying my collecting bottles, if only for a quick relocation for a photo shoot. But I'd come out without them this time.

Better luck next time. I hope. I'll be keeping an eye on that bush. We're down there every month or so.
… SusannahA, 5 October, 2008 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

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