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Pisauridae
(Nursery Web Spiders)

Picture ID 203575

Picture of Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders) - Female - Egg sacs,Webs
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BugmanDan

A fishing spider, Dolomedes genus.

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TangledWeb

Maybe a Nursery Web Spider? Angie, Fishing Spiders and Nursery Web Spiders are in the same family. Both carry their egg sacs around with them using their mouth appendages. They need to guard the egg sacs from parasitic wasps. Your spider has a partial nursery web built near the tip of the leaf. It’s a soft wall that can be made into a full tent. It helps keep predators away, keeps temperature and humidity controlled, and keeps the spiderlings from wandering in all directions when the hatch. The mother guards them for a while, then might lead them to a… Read more »

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BugmanDan

Very true. The face patterns are very similar also, often dark on fishing spiders.
This might be Pisaurina mira for that broad dark stipe on the carapace.

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