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Photo number three; last one in this series. Sorry for the blurriness in these last two photos. Submitted this one because it shows its underside.
hey, I figured out how to change it to 2018: Select date field again, change the day, change the date back – – and it sticks. At least that’s what worked for me.
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- Submitted: Jan 2, 2019
- Photographed: Apr 5, 2018
- Spider: Mecaphesa
- Location: Grants Pass , Oregon, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Lateral
Help identify this spider
May 10, 2019
May 10, 2019
Santa Barbara, 
This is the Misumena vatia the golden rod crab spider
That was my guess. But apparently it is Mecaphesa… is that the same thing!
No, Mecaphesa and Misumena are different genera (plural of genus). They are in the same family group but a genetic split separates them at the next level of their DNA evolution into different genus groups. The genus is the capitalized word in the two name (binomial) system of naming living things. The next word is the species group within the genus. It goes: Genus species The binomial name is supposed to be italicized or underlined but we aren’t doing that because it can be technologically too complicated for these purposes.
No, please, I don’t want to turn it back to 2018 again! But, good job on figuring it out! 🙂