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Orchard Spider

Leucauge venusta

Photo by polerpress
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Field Notes

Description:

It is small and colorful. It's front legs to his back legs is about the size of a face of a dime.

Habitat:

Woods-y areas. In trees and on bark and tree trunks.

Species ID Suggestions

Orchard Spider

Leucauge venusta

Comments (15)

That's a pretty little spider :D
Wow. Amazing colours. I like to see such a spider once.
Please consider putting this beautiful spider and web in the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378
I've never seen that many colors on a spider. Very cool!
Thankyou! They are so colorful in person I tried my best to show it here too. Yes , I did have to edit this picture a bit, but only a little bit of color enhancement so I could get it to be as pretty as it is in person :)
I gotta admit.. your capture is MUCH better than anything else I found while trying to figure out what it was!! haha.. amazing shot : )
I think youre right! Thank you so much! I see these around all the time but have never known what they are.
I was intrigued! So I searched google... and came up with Orchard Spider!
Thanks for the tip. I definitely will add it.
What a beauty! You could also add this to the International Spider Survey mission.
Wow, amazing colors!!
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012

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