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Tent Spider with egg sacs

Cyrtophora sp.

Photo by SukanyaDatta
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Spider body is greenish with a tracery of yellow lines. Small, rather delicate-looking. Abdomen is tapered.

Habitat:

Office garden. Hidden in the hedges.

Notes:

Thank you, Catgrin for the ID.

Reference Links:

Cyrtophora

Species ID Suggestions

Tent Spider

Cyrtophora cicatrosa

Reference Link
catgrin
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Comments (2)
SukanyaDatta
Thank you catgrin, I will update this shortly. I need Internet Explorer to do editing. Chrome only allows me to upload pic. So I cannot edit from home. I really appreciate the trouble you took for me. Many, many thanks.
catgrin
This one wasn't easy to find! The Naturia link shows both light and dark coloration. EOL only shows the dark (which is apparently their alarm coloring), so I wanted to be sure you had that reference. It also describes egg sacs matching your spider. Here's another picture. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiomanese/1128091651/

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PublishedOctober 31, 2014

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