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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Unidentified Spider Egg Sacs, Webs, Retreats, and Droppings
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Green spider egg sac
Copyright © 2012 John R. Maxwell

Green spider egg sac
Franklin Parker Preserve, Woodland Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
June 10, 2012
Size: Maybe around 3 mm?
I assume this is a spider egg sac. Suspended by several threads about knee high on a pine tree at the edge of the woods near a bog and a sandy road.

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Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 13 June, 2012 - 10:49am
Last updated 7 July, 2012 - 6:32am

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Moved from ID Request.
I found something similar, but not green, in California. I seem to remember reading about some Japanese tetragnathid that does something similar. Being near a bog is sort of suggestive of tetragnathid too. It would be great if you could collect and rear one of these.
… Charley Eiseman, 7 July, 2012 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

 
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Joe Lapp suggested Tetragnathid or Mimetid and said that "Except for being green, it looks like Tetragnatha laboriosa."

This was shot in the pine barrens on a pine and we get a ton of greenish pollen from them, maybe the green is just pollen stuck to the outside?
… John R. Maxwell, 7 July, 2012 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Seems like silk to me, but hard to say for sure...
There certainly are tetragnathids that put green silk on their egg sacs:
… Charley Eiseman, 7 July, 2012 - 12:12pm login or register to post comments

 
I know!
I can't even remember why I didn't collect it.
… John R. Maxwell, 7 July, 2012 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

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