3:00 snapshot #1327

Sweating on the Fourth of July.

100 More species #85: Nursery web spider

Nursery web spider Pisaurina mira

Alexis came into the house to get me, "the biggest spider I've ever seen around here!" I would say that it's about tied for size with the Argiope yellow-and-black garden spiders and Carolina wolf spiders that are both known from our area (but not yet from our yard). I instantly thought of fishing spiders, but of course we aren't near enough to water for that to be right.
( more thrilling tales of identification plus terrifying close-up )

Jim in the pool

Jim is only one of the dogs that takes advantage of the pool.