Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)

Picture ID 42366

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female wolf spider? Was on a rhododendron I was pruning. Was carrying an egg sack by mouth. It isn’t in the photo. It was dropped when I jostled her but I reunited her with it. The area is mixed urban/forested/wetlands.

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tangledweb
Submitted: Oct 5, 2018
Photographed: Jul 16, 2018
Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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CalumEwing

October 5, 2018 12:42 pm

Not a Wolf Spider. They carry their egg sacs attached to the spinnerets at the back of the abdomen. Carrying it with her jaws, it would be one of the Fishing Spiders and judging by the size of it, one of the species of the genus Dolomedes, part of the Nursery Web Weaver family Pisauridae.