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Enoplognatha Ovata (Candy Striped Spider)
I found this spider on a strawberry from a dish of berries. I live in Michigan but the berries are from Mexico. This little fella survived for around a week refrigerated! Tough little guy.
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- Submitted: Jan 5, 2019
- Photographed: Jan 3, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Edmore, Michigan, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Is my identification correct?
Hi, I think so. I did some research and I can’t find a better match than Enoplognatha Ovata. It is tricky because spiders, like this species, are showing up in new places and the ranges aren’t definite. Spiders, such as this one, also tend to be very variable in their colors and markings from individual to individual. This one found a great plant -strawberries- for camouflage. We humans unknowingly eat lots of insects and spiders. The U.S. Government has a chart for allowable numbers of insects parts per measure in processed foods. I worked in a lab where we kept… Read more »
Oh snap don’t tell me that! The thought of munching on little cridders makes me cringe! I don’t want to have to eyeball the whole of everything I eat hahaa
And that sounds really nasty. No way could I open pandoras box with a job like that.
You don’t want to hear what someone who worked for a ketchup company told me about how they harvest the tomatoes. I used to pick wild blueberries from the fields in Maine. If you avoided the ones that might have insects in them you wouldn’t get to eat the blueberries. Hey- you’re the one with spider fruit – just because they’re called candy striped spiders, it doesn’t make them candy. 😉
Hahaha yeah funny part is I brought the berries into work and offered to share with a coworker. He refused and said he had a thing against taking produce from people…. I thought it was strange. Not 5 minutes later I found that little guy crawling around; i showed everyone in the break room, and the guy i had offered to share with said, “See, that would’ve been the one you gave me!”
He wasn’t necessarily wrong!