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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Fungus-ridden Spiders
Photo#457303
Fungus victim
Copyright © 2010 Carmen Champagne

Fungus victim
Athens/ Rock and Shoals Outcrop, Clarke County, Georgia, USA
September 18, 2009
There is so much fungus growing on this spider, I can't make out any of its features.
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Contributed by Carmen Champagne on 21 September, 2010 - 1:25pm
Last updated 19 February, 2011 - 10:52am

Carmen
would you consider uploading this to MushroomObserver.org?
… myxomop, 23 February, 2013 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Entelegynes .
… Lynette Elliott, 19 February, 2011 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders. This is where we've been storing the spiders we can't ID to family. Neat find.
… Lynette Elliott, 9 October, 2010 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

Wow
Very neat find!
… Dan Leeder, 23 September, 2010 - 12:16am login or register to post comments

Eew, see what happens when yo
Eew, see what happens when you fall asleep watching television?

Do we have a category for these images?
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 September, 2010 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

 
No category as far as I can tell.
All of the fungus photos seem to be placed under the respective host species.
… Carmen Champagne, 21 September, 2010 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Q-tip attack!
They seem to be being collected here.
… Ashley Bradford, 21 September, 2010 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

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