Nursery Web Spider
A close-up view of a nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis) basking on a leaf in a garden habitat. The female spider carries her egg sac below her abdomen and creates a web nursery when the spiderlings emerge from the sac. The nursery web spider is a member of the Pisauridae family and can be found across the palearctic region. Photographed in Somerset, UK, in September., HEATH MCDONALD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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