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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: :
Common Name: spider

Country: USA
State/District: VA
County: Fairfax
Date (D-M-Y): 8 - 6 - 2003

Photographer: Susan Hitch

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
 Location: Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve

Keywords: A spider Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve DMWP
Additional Information:


This spider on a flower head of Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron sp.) is holding a Toxomerus Flower Fly.   One of the other such flies may be dead (possibly a victim of this spider), and the other is resting on the flower head.

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