Comments & ID Thoughts
Found on our shed out next to our pasture, I believe it’s a New Mexico Garden spider, same undercarriage design and the top of the back has the same marks and colors along with the legs of the pictures of them I’ve seen
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- Submitted: Sep 27, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 27, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Kearney, Nebraska, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
- Found in web?: No
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Hi, this is probably the ventral view of Argiope trifasciata. The American Arachnological Society accepted “banded garden spider “ as the common name for this species. That won’t stop the public from calling it whatever they want. I haven’t heard “New Mexico garden spider” used before. You can call it the Nebraska garden spider in the privacy of your own home. 😉