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Comments & ID Thoughts
Please help identify, thanks!
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- Submitted: Oct 6, 2019
- Photographed: Aug 27, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Ketchikan, Alaska, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Looks a lot like a cross spider. The colors are a bit different from what I am used to, but in my limited experience, cross spiders tend to be one of the more variable spiders when it comes to their colors.
I think she is in that genus, but her markings are too odd to match Araneus diadematus. Araneus saevus is a related spider that we have had sightings of from Alaska. I haven’t seen many photos of it, but yes Araneus species spiders can surprise with their variability.