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saw this little guy on my car tire
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- Submitted: Sep 26, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 26, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Warminster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
I’m not an expert but I’d say that’s definitely a jumping spider (there’s a large variety of them everywhere (including in PA) so finding a list that has them all on it is difficult) and normally I’d just assume that that’s a tan jumping spider but the iridescent green on its back makes me question that because that’s a trait of emerald jumping spiders so I did some googling and it could also possibly be a canopy jumping spider (I found one picture of one that was a cream colored with a slightly iridescent green back) so I don’t know… Read more »
@Charleigh0614 Welcome to SpiderID! You did a great job on this, thank you. This site is totally run by volunteers around the World. We don’t expect expertise, though we sometimes get lucky and get some professionals. 🙂 I don’t know this Jumping Spider from memory. It’s unusual to see one in autumn with a caterpillar as prey. BTW, there’s a way to edit what you write for a brief time after you post a comment. I just did that. Hit “Reply” > cog icon > edit. You got a laugh from me at, “I don’t even know if you can… Read more »
The answer to mixing spiders is..sometimes. In the definition of a species when I was in school was that they can not breed with other species to produce viable fertile offspring. The problem with that was until around the late 1990’s species were designated by appearance. Then rapid genetic sequencing showed that many guesses were incorrect. A species can have many different appearances and actually breeding things after genetic sequencing, then breeding the offspring is a lot of work. It’s all still kinda mushy. I have oak saplings in my yard that grew from acorns from what appear to be… Read more »