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Orchard Spider

Leucauge venusta

Description:

Common in forested areas and gardens. Bright red, orange or yellow coloration at the tip of the abdomen may or may not be present.

Notes:

This species is parasitised by a wasp larva which attaches itself externally at the junction of the cephalothorax and abdomen.

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5 Comments

tmvdh
tmvdh 10 years ago

There's a problem using Google Chrome - but deleting spottings from missions using Firefox works fine...

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 10 years ago

sorry i did not notice that mistake, there is a problem when I remove the spotting from your mission it loooks like everything is ok but when I click in save the spottings doesnt changes, it still appears in your mission, no matter wath spotting I edit

tmvdh
tmvdh 10 years ago

One more spider :-(

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 11 years ago

thank you

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 11 years ago

Nice web shot in number 2

Ismael Chaves
Spotted by
Ismael Chaves

Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on Dec 16, 2012
Submitted on Dec 16, 2012

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