This is a female who has taken a few leaves of my Luna Hibiscus to use as her home.
CLOSED: Spider ID
This is a fishing/nursery web spider (family Pisauridae), perhaps a Dolomedes sp. They are active hunters like their close cousins, the wolf spiders, and also share their habit of exhibiting a degree of parental care unusual for spiders.
Thanks Suunto! I'm reading up on it on Wikipedia.org now.
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