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Orb weaver spider, I dont see this species often. Blue legs with white abdomen, some fine green lines. End black with yellow dots.
wetland/woodland
A beautiful orb weaver spider. I dont think Ive seen another one since this photo was taken.
Spotted on May 5, 2012
Submitted on Jul 27, 2012
5 Comments
Hi Joseph, this lovely spider is from Genus Leucauge. There are two species from this genus in Florida. Do you have any more photos at different angles of this beauty?
Here are links to the two:
Leucauge argyra: http://bugguide.net/node/view/40305
Leucauge venusta: http://bugguide.net/node/view/2010
They are really attractive little spiders!
no this spider is very small, about the size of my ring finger nail, i have some pictures of this spider they seem to like the old wood thats in my back yard
Very cool!
i just made this because i couldnt find what type of spider they were... they were here for a while and i was just curious what they were
i see these spiders in my back yard all the time one of em even has babies