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A few millimeters wide, brown/red.
Fen, attached to a leaf.
Unfortunately, lighting wasn't the best in the field, so this is the only picture that turned out well enough to keep. This is an egg sac of a spider, either in the family Mimetidae (pirate spiders), or an egg sac of a ray spider (Theridiosomatidae), of which only two species occur in North America. These spiders suspend their egg sacs from a strand of silk and attach it to an object, such as a leaf.
Spotted on Jul 10, 2011
Submitted on Aug 6, 2011
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