I vote for a type of jumping spider. Short legs, highly mobile, fat abdomen.
I've never seen one like this, or this big before.


"Matthew Reed" nospam at zootal dot com nospam wrote in message
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I found the weirdest spider on my porch (which is near my garden ). Does
anyone have any idea what this is? It has short legs, which eliminates most
spiders common to this area. It also has a very distinctive pattern on it's
back. Is this a good spider to move to the garden?

http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...s/DSCF3580.jpg

The entire gallery is he

http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...eird%20Spider/