Scientific Name: Heliophanus kochii
Family: Salticidae
Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania
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Scientific Name: Heliophanus kochii
Family: Salticidae
Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania
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Scientific Name: Agelenopsis sp.
Family: Agelenidae
Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania
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Scientific Name: Rabidosa rabida
Family: Lycosidae
Native Range: Eastern and Central United States, Pennsylvania
Size: Female: 16 to 21 mm (0.63 – 0.83 in); Male: 11 to 12 mm (0.43 – 0.47 in)*
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Color and Appearance: “The ground color is yellow, with brownish to black longitudinal stripes. In this species, the median dark band of the abdomen is broken and encloses lighter areas. The male has leg I dark brown or black. The venter is not spotted.”*
*From BugGuide.net (https://bugguide.net/node/view/26084)
Family: Lycosidae
Native Range: Worldwide, Pennsylvania
Size: Varies
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August 16, 2020: Wolf spiders are a common family of spiders in our area. I notice them most because they are devoted mothers. Females carry their egg sacks with them attached to their spinnerettes. Ian and I first became aware of wolf spiders while visiting our pool when he was four. We saw a brown spider with lots of tiny bumps on her back near one of the pool drains. When we got home, I Googled the image and discovered that she was a wolf spider with her babies riding on her back. Ian looked at the picture and said, “Look Mama! She was taking her babies to the pool, just like you take me.”
Scientific Name: Tutelina elegans
Family: Tutelina
Native Range: Eastern United States and Canada, Pennsylvania
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Scientific Name: Mecynogea lemniscata
Family: Araneidae Araneidae
Native Range: United States to Argentina, Pennsylvania
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Scientific Name: Argiope aurantia
Family: Araneidae
Native Range: North and Central America, Pennsylvania*
Size: Males: 0.2 – 0.35 in (5–9 mm); Females: 0.75 – 1.10 in (19–28 mm)*
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Color and Appearance: Yellow and black markings on abdomen with a mostly white cephalothorax*
*From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
Family: Araneidae
Native Range: World wide, North America, Pennsylvania
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Family: Salticidae
Native Range: Worldwide, including North America, Pennsylvania
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