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Araneus cingulatus
Photo#424452
Copyright © 2010
tom murray
green spider -
Araneus cingulatus
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 4, 2010
Size: 4mm
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Contributed by
tom murray
on 10 July, 2010 - 3:22pm
Last updated 16 July, 2010 - 9:17am
Moved
Moved from
Araneus
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tom murray
, 16 July, 2010 - 9:17am
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
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Kevin Pfeiffer
, 11 July, 2010 - 2:32am
Epigyne shot added
She looks mature, but also very dead:-(
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tom murray
, 16 July, 2010 - 9:00am
Oops, well something for the
Oops, well something for the bottle. Looks rather like Araneus cingulatus on initial inspection.
-K
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Kevin Pfeiffer
, 16 July, 2010 - 9:08am
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.
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john and jane balaban
, 10 July, 2010 - 7:06pm
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Thanks John and Jane. It looks like it might be Araneus cingulatus.
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tom murray
, 10 July, 2010 - 3:59pm
Nice, Araneus
A couple look like this, cingulatus and ... we'll have to read our books!
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john and jane balaban
, 10 July, 2010 - 3:54pm