flower-loving nursery-web

Nice work with the photos there. This appears to be a Nursery Web Spider, species Pisaurina Mira. They get thier common name from the web the female builds for her offspring amongst vegetation, which is the only web constructed by this species, as they are plant-dwelling hunters similar to the Lynx spiders. She can also be seen carrying a large egg sac resembling a small golf ball around under her cephalothorax (the front half of the body). In some European Pisaurina species, the male will offer the female a courtship gift of a Fly or other prey item.