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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
Oct 11, 2023
Oct 11, 2023
Harrison , 
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.