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Comments & ID Thoughts
Looks like a Wasp Spider to me
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- Submitted: Sep 30, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 30, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Browns Yard, New Brunswick, Canada
- Spotted Outdoors: Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland,Forest
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Argiope bruennichi
(Wasp Spider)
Probably Argiope trifasciata https://bugguide.net/node/view/2015. They look about the same, but there are no records of A. bruennichi in Canada, maybe one in Alaska. It would take an expert with a microscope to ID her scientifically to species. We give a ‘best possible’ answer from the image and location.
Your spider is gravid with eggs, nearly ready to make egg sacs. The eggs and spiderlings are freeze-resistant. The hatchlings will emerge in the Spring and will disperse away from each other.