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green spider - Araneus cingulatus

green spider - Araneus cingulatus
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 4, 2010
Size: 4mm

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Moved
Moved from Araneus.

Tom, can you cool her down (o
Tom, can you cool her down (or something) and check whether she has a mature-looking epigynum?

-k

 
Epigyne shot added
She looks mature, but also very dead:-(

 
Oops, well something for the
Oops, well something for the bottle. Looks rather like Araneus cingulatus on initial inspection.

-K

The other one we were thinking of is A. nashoba
We always struggle trying to figure out how that is different from cingulatus. We have probably read those descriptions twenty times. Someday we'll figure it out.

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
Thanks John and Jane. It looks like it might be Araneus cingulatus.

Nice, Araneus
A couple look like this, cingulatus and ... we'll have to read our books!