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Just look at those chelicerae! Phidippus workmani is within the P. audax species group - and although the males are relatively close in appearance to P. audax males - the females are just fantastically marked! This awesome female specimen was found by Josh Mayes, an attendee of the workshop.
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. [1] Females of the family are known for building special nursery webs. When their eggs are about to hatch, a female spider builds a tent-like web, places her egg sac inside, and stands guard outside, hence the family's common name.
Dolomedes scriptus is a fishing spider found in the United States and Canada, [1] known as the striped fishing spider. [2] Female spiders can grow to be over 6 cm in legspan. The spider is a pale brown colour with lighter stripes around its legs and a stripe down each side of the body.
With so many kinds of eight-legged bugs running around (nearly 3,000 species in North America alone!), the most common house spiders are bound to pop up in your abode from time to time. And with ...
Phidippus otiosus is a species of jumping spider that is found in southeastern North America. It is primarily a tree-living species. [1] Females reach a body length of about 16 mm. Its iridescent chelicerae can range in color from purple to green.
Pisaurina mira, also known as the American nursery web spider, due to the web it raises young in, is a species of spider in the family Pisauridae. They are often mistaken for wolf spiders due to their physical resemblance. P. mira is distinguished by its unique eye arrangement of two rows.
No recluse spiders are native to Florida, yet species like the Brown Recluse are commonly found in the state. The Brown Recluse, also known as the 'fiddleback' spider, can be identified by the ...
Spiders inside your home were likely born there, according to Terminix, meaning a female spider might've placed one of her egg sacs in an undisturbed area of your home, like crawl spaces, storage ...