Comments & ID Thoughts
This was in my deck box with my outdoor cushions in northwestern NJ...fishing spider?
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- Submitted: Jul 23, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 22, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Morristown, New Jersey, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
I forgot to mention it was pretty fuzzy
Yes. This is a fishing spider. It looks like a dark fishing spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus, to me, but the pretty fuzzy comment makes me think it’s a white banded fishing spider, D. albineus.