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Redlegged Purseweb Spider

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Foldingdoor Trapdoor Spider

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Neil Young's Trapdoor Spider

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Ravine Trapdoor Spider

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Southern House Spider

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Brown Recluse Spider

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Spitting Spider with eggs

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Longbodied Cellar Spider

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Woodlouse Spider

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Featherlegged Orbweaver

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Common House Spider

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Southern Black Widow

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Southern Black Widow

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Brown Widow

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No Common Name Cobweaver SPider

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Triangulate Cobweb Spider

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Scarlet Sheetweaver

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Orchard Spider

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Golden Silk Spider

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Florida Garden Spider

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Black and Yellow Garden Spider

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Banded Garden Spider

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Elongate Garden Spider

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Marbled Orbweaver

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No Common Name Orbweaver

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Lichenmarked Orbweaver

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Spinybacked Orbweaver

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Furrow Orbweaver

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Toadlike Bolas Spider

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Basilica Orbweaver

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Spined Micrathena

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Arrowhead Micrathena

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Arboreal Orbweaver

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Asterisk Spider

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Santa Rosa Wolf Spider

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Carolina Wolf Spider

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No Common Name Wolf Spider

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Shore Spider

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Six-Dotted Dolomedes

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No Common Name Fishing Spider

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Green Lynx Spider

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No Common Name Wandering Spider

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Grass Spider

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Manybanded Antmimic

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Redspotted Antmimic

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Parson Spider

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No Common Name Ground Hunter

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Whitebanded Crab Spider

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No Common Name Crablike Spider

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Ground Crab Spider

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Twinflagged Jumper

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Emerald Jumper

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Dimorphic Jumper

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Magnolia Green Jumper

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No Common Name

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Red Velvet Jumper

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No Common Name Jumper

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Pantropical Jumper

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No Common Name Jumper

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Spiders of Alabama

AL.com is pleased to bring you this photographic slideshow of 58 spiders common to Alabama in collaboration with Legacy, Partners in Environmental Education. The environmental nonprofit has trained more than 3,000 Alabama teachers and provided more than $2 million in grants to schools and other organizations since its inception in 1992.

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