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Green pea spider

Araneus apricus

Description:

Bright green spider, very well camouflaged when it hides amongst leaves.

Habitat:

Riverine forest (Spirostachys africanus)

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19 Comments

Great catch Kate,beautiful collour,congrats on the SOTD and thanks for sharing

Agustín Amenabar L
Agustín Amenabar L 10 years ago

Lovely lovely!
Very much like it's South-american relative the Molinaranea magellanica.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/937...

Congrats on the spotting of the day

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

Oh that is Excellent news! :D

KateBraun
KateBraun 10 years ago

Thanks, everyone. Perhaps this is fitting - we have now passed 300 spottings for the Mlawula Nature Reserve mission!

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

Oh hurray! Congratulations to the spotting of the day :D
Swaziland delivers :)

Ajenjonadita
Ajenjonadita 10 years ago

Wow! Very nice!! It's an awesome spider!

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 10 years ago

Congratulations

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

Congratulations, Kate.

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 10 years ago

Congrats Kate. Beautiful green spider

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Hey congratulations. What a cute spider. Aptly named !!

Congrats Kate on this SOTD!

KarenL
KarenL 10 years ago

Congrats Kate, your well-named green pea spider is our Spotting of the Day!

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KateBraun
KateBraun 10 years ago

Thanks, everyone!

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

The photos turned out great Kate. Congratulations :)

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 10 years ago

Oh he's lovely! Great camouflage too.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

Very nice spotting, Kate ! they must look really interesting in their webs..would love to see one.

Ahmed Mujcinovic
Ahmed Mujcinovic 10 years ago

One big fat spider I see. :)

AlanThornhill
AlanThornhill 10 years ago

What a gorgeous looking spider.

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

Nice spotting and shooting!

KateBraun
Spotted by
KateBraun

Dwaleni, Lubombo Region, Swaziland

Spotted on Mar 3, 2014
Submitted on Mar 3, 2014

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