I was thinking I had posted this picture, but Mike informed me that he was still waiting for it. This is a fishing spider, possibly Dolomedes triton, at Alligator Lake in Lake City in September 2009. We saw another fishing spider today, but I didn’t get nearly as good a picture of it this time. They can walk along the water, like water striders, and sense motion transmitted along the surface of of water to find prey instead of along the strands of webs.

For good measure, here are the other pictures that I never posted from that trip. This is a phaon crescent.

None of the froggies in our Audubon guide look like this little guy. [Update: We now suspect that this is a baby bullfrog]