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MatBio: ARACHNIDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Yellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
Spinybacked Orbweaver 1
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Golden Silk Orb-weaver 2
Nephila clavipes
Giant Lichen Orbweaver 3
Araneus bicentenarius
humpbacked orbweaver 4
Eustala anastera
Spotted Orbweaver 5
Neoscona domiciliorum
Arrowhead Orbweaver 6
Verrucosa arenata
Starbellied Orbweaver 7
Acanthepeira stellata
Tropical Orbweaver Spider 8
Eriophora ravilla
basilica spider 9
Mecynogea lemniscata
Arrow-shaped Micrathena 10
Micrathena sagittata
Banded Garden Spider 11
Argiope trifasciata
Spiny Crowned Orbweaver 12
Micrathena gracilis
Bolas Spiders 13
Mastophora

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) Sam Fraser-Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 2. (c) Frank Starmer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) Glen Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 4. (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 5. Theresa Thom, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 6. (c) Richard Crook, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 7. (c) Lisa Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 8. (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 9. (c) Cletus Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 10. (c) Patrick Coin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 11. (c) Ferran Pestaña, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 12. (c) Dan Nydick, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 13. (c) kim fleming, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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