Wildlife Spotting

Hi mrurgo11 and welcome to Project Noah! This beautiful spider you have found is a female jumping spider (Family Salticidae). She looks similar to a couple of species that are known to occur in your area. Here is a link to the Bugguide (very useful resource for identifying insects, spiders and related organisms in North America) page with several of the similar species: http://bugguide.net/node/view/83484/bgpage For future submissions, if you can get more than one angle (face, side, etc.) that can be extremely useful for ID purposes since some species of animals and plants can be quite similar in appearance with only very minor differences.