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Tuesday - July 14, 2015
From: Jackson, WY
Region: Rocky Mountain
Topic: Pests
Title: Identity of tiny green spiders found in Sego lilies
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:
Hi - I'm wondering if you can identify for me the name of the tiny green spiders that can be found inside Sego Lilies (Calochortus nuttallii). I have a photo if that would be helpful. Thanks!! Carrie NaughtonANSWER:
Mr. Smarty Plants is pretty good at identifying plants, but spiders are outside our area of expertise. I suggest you try several of the Insect/Spider guides such as:
- Spiders.us has a Forum that you can join and appears to have the means to attach photographs of spiders to be identified,
- BugGuide.net–Order Araneae, Spiders has an ID Request feature
- Spider Identification Guide from BASF Corporation
There are more websites that might be useful and you can find them by searching with the following terms: "spider identification guide"
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