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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 Naughton

ANSWER:

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:

Insect Identification Guide–North American Spiders,

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"