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Leucauge argyra at a guess? I'm not terribly good at IDs, I tend more towards photography in general, but I'd like to learn as best I can.
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- Submitted: Jun 22, 2021
- Photographed: Jun 20, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: centreville, Virginia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
She’s Leucauge venusta. You had the genus correct. 🙂 I can do the IDs but my photos aren’t nearly that good. Either way can be frustrating. I’ve taken some nice photos of things that can’t be identified, it’s so unsatisfying. The trick on this one is the range of the Leucauge species. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1998 I can’t link the range data, but this is the Leucauge ID chart at BugGuide.net. Our moderator prefers that we use their data for sightings because they have many more years of data. If you join BugGuide you can access the sightings locations or choose a state… Read more »
cool and thankya. I get a little too excited about images and finding some place that will look at them, but getting an ID (at least close) is always a good thing. I was just out trying to get some more, getting her to move around in the web a bit, but she’s very reluctant go go through the center of the web, or even switch sides at all, from what I’ve seen.