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Contributions for this site:

Josh Hillman & Emily Earp: FloridaNature.org
Except for contributions by those listed below, all photographs on this site were taken by us and all content was provided by us. Photographs that were not taken by us are indicated next to the thumbnail images for the various species displayed on this site.
Aaron McCarthy: www.aaronmccarthy.com
Provided photo of Phidippus otiosus.
Bill Meidling: Provided photo of a male huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria).
David Culver: Environmental Specialist
St. Johns County Environmental Planning
Provided one of the photos of Araneus bicentenarius.
Frank Metzger: Provided some of the photos of Heteropoda venatoria.
G. B. Edwards, Ph.D.: Taxonomic Entomologist
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, FDACS, Division of Plant Industry
Dr. Edwards on several occasions has helped us identify some of the spiders listed on our site. Until a book that G. B. Edwards co-authored, Florida's Fabulous Spiders (ISBN 0-911977-21-X), was published in late 2001, finding information about Florida's spiders has been somewhat difficult. A fairly recent listing of his publications can be found at http://spiders.arizona.edu/salticid/diagnost/0-author/edwa-pbl.htm
Gloria Diana Uhl: Provided photos of Peucetia viridans mother and spiderlings.
Guy E. Crauwels: Provided various photos of arachnids (class: Arachnida).
Heather Van Auken: Provided photo of Syntomeida epilais feeding on purple coneflower (Echinacea sp.)
Jessica Gengo: Provided photo of Ocypode quadrata.
Julie Lawler: Provided photos of a cicada (family: Cicadidae) ermerging from its larval exoskeleton.
Karl Rehbaum: Provided a photo of Acharia stimulea larva (cateripillar).
Kim Clark: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
DuPont granted us the right to reproduce an article from their November / December 1996 edition of DuPont Magazine entitled, Fiber Engineers, Meet Thy Master.
Krishna Singh: Unique Video Creations
Provided photo of Gasteracantha cancriformis.
Larry Mulvehill: Provided photos of Papilio polyxenes larvae (caterpillars).
Mary Szafraniec: Environmental Specialist II
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Southwest District
Provided photos of Ceratomia undulosa larva (caterpillar).
May Lenzer: http://www.geocities.com/ovaeasy5944/mayspage
Provided photo of Syntomeida epilais feeding on Lantana camara.
Pat Lamond: Webmaster of Osceola County Cooperative Extension Service
for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - University of Florida
Pat has contributed various photos for the FloridaNature.org website.
Prof. F. Wayne King: Curator of Herpetology
Florida Museum of Natural History
Wayne King on several occasions has helped us identify some of the snakes and most of frogs and toads on our site.
Scott Ehly: Provided photos of Gasteracantha cancriformis.
Steve Holzfaster: Provided some of the photos of Heteropoda venatoria.
Tim Stradling: Provided photos of a female brown widow (Latrodectus geometricus) with a young southern toad (Bufo terrestris) caught in her web.