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dark fishing spider on nursery web - Dolomedes scriptus - female
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dark fishing spider on nursery web - Dolomedes scriptus - Female
Walpole, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
September 9, 2013
Size: 22 mm
With tiny offspring. Hundreds more inside web. They must overwinter. Can post-partum females do so also?

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dark fishing spider on nursery web - Dolomedes scriptus - female dark fishing spider on nursery web - Dolomedes scriptus - female dark fishing spider on nursery web - Dolomedes scriptus - female
Contributed by ophis on 9 October, 2013 - 6:42am
Last updated 4 June, 2014 - 11:05pm

Moved
Moved from Dolomedes tenebrosus.
… Laura P., 4 June, 2014 - 11:05pm

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