Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Huntress

Looking for slugs in my garden, I found this big spider, instead:




She's probably a Philodromus, a running crab spider of some sort. It's hard to be sure, because a defining characteristic is that the second pair of legs is longer than the first. And all she's got in second place is a broken stub.

One advantage of having eight, I guess; she's doing fine with two gone.

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