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crissyr Fayetteville, AR(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2010

This is a female who has taken a few leaves of my Luna Hibiscus to use as her home.

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crissyr Fayetteville, AR(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2010

This is a different setting on my camera and brings out the colors a little more.

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crissyr Fayetteville, AR(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2010

Here's her babies.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jun 02, 2010

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.

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crissyr Fayetteville, AR(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2010

Thanks Suunto! I'm reading up on it on Wikipedia.org now.

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