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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Aculepeira » Aculepeira packardi
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Light brown spider - Aculepeira packardi
Copyright © 2014 Bob Webster

Light brown spider - Aculepeira packardi
Skagit County, Washington, USA
July 31, 2014

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Contributed by Bob Webster on 26 August, 2014 - 2:58pm
Last updated 18 April, 2024 - 11:16pm

Moved
Moved from Aculepeira.

ID courtesy of Rod Crawford. "At that elevation this species is highly likely. The two undescribed species I know of are in the Puget lowlands and the Columbia Basin."
… Bob Webster, 18 April, 2024 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 22 September, 2014 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

Orb weaver - Aculepeira
wonder if it is the undescribed species Lynette posted
… john and jane balaban, 26 August, 2014 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks similar
I'm not sure if it's important, but this one was up in the forest instead of the prairie.

I was taking a photo of it on a flower, and it took off to the web and caught a fly. After a bit, the spider brought the fly back to the flower, dangling the fly from one of its (the spider's) hind legs.
… Bob Webster, 26 August, 2014 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

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