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Nursery Web Spider - Pisaurina mira
Copyright © 2010 Ken

Nursery Web Spider - Pisaurina mira
Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 26, 2010
Size: body length approx 1/2"
Originally submitted as: Unknown spider
Found in the underbrush along a grassy trail in southeastern PA.
Contributed by Ken on 29 August, 2010 - 7:51am
Last updated 28 October, 2010 - 12:21pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 4 September, 2010 - 10:04am

Nursery Web Spider
Pisaurina mira
… john and jane balaban, 29 August, 2010 - 7:54am

 
Male?
Would that be a male, along with This One?
… Ken, 29 August, 2010 - 8:10am

 
Difficult to see the palps
but they look long and thin in both images, so females. And guarding the nursery would be the females' job. The males are long gone.
… john and jane balaban, 29 August, 2010 - 1:25pm

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