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Nursery spider with it's brood and egg sac inside the web.
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- Submitted: Jul 19, 2023
- Photographed: Jul 18, 2023
- Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
- Sex:
- Maturity:Adult
- Location: Ellsworth, Maine, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Spiderlings, Webs
Jun 16, 2024
Jun 16, 2024
Red Hook, 
Nursery spider
Pisaurina mira with hatchlings in nursery web. That’s an awesome photo! Thank you for sharing it. I’ll use this as my example photo when explaining nursery webs. I love the added bonus of it looking like a spider army captured a squirrel. 🙂 It looks like the web is so densely-woven that it protected the hatchlings from being injured by the force of rain drops. It’s also tightly woven enough to keep parasitic wasps out. I don’t know if this is a species that has hatchlings disperse by ballooning. They might fly by putting out some silk when the atmospheric… Read more »
Thanks, it was fun finding the spider family- on a squirrel I made-and learning more about them. They are all still there I am going to be do a nursery check to see when they leave. As of July 21 all are in the nest and are doing well! Yup, I recognize those local names.