Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)

Picture ID 57221

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Thinking possible wolf spider?

Submitted by:
disteriea
Submitted: Apr 16, 2019
Photographed: Apr 16, 2019
Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
Location: Cottontown, Tennessee, United States
Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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TangledWeb

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May 1, 2019 12:25 am

Hi, it looks like a Nursery Web Spider, Pisaurina mira. They are large (for USA) ambush hunters like wolf spiders, but these lie flat like the Fishing Spiders that are related to them. They have a sprawled pose and rarely move. They hunt large insects like katydids and grasshoppers.