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Eggs

Eggs
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
January 27, 2008
Size: 9.5mm (3/8")
Ok, this was under a fair size fallen limb in leaf litter. The limb was fairly decomposed. That just has to be some sort of alien in there. Please help with ID.

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Eggs Eggs Eggs Eggs

Moved

Moved
Moved from egg sacs.

Moved
Moved from Entelegynes.

Moved
Moved from eggs.

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Well you're not going to believe this but when I got home today I thought I would see if I could find this again, and I did ! I remembered that I found it on the way back to the house (from the woods) Sunday so I retraced where I had went and it was about 1/4 of a mile into the woods.

The first pic is the one already posted from Sunday. The second, third, and fourth I took when I got it back to the house tonight. The third pic I adjusted the flash exposure compensation down to try to reduce the flash wash-out and the fourth pic is an edge-on view. I believe these last three pics are better than the first. You can see that it is definitely an egg mass inside the web.

The second thing is now that I have it at home (and a piece of the old tree it's attached to) what do I do with it ?
I'll put it in a container and then just watch it I guess. And hopefully something (or multiple somethings) will hatch. Any suggestions ?

 
I'm no expert
but I would think if you can reproduce whatever the conditions were where you found it, that would be best. Ie., keep it in a container that is in an outdoor shed where temps are similar to outdoor temps, maybe with a couple bits of the sort of wood you found it under, or just the bit that it's attached to. Make sure you have it in something secure that tiny things with legs can't get out of. Make sure you check on it regularly. Make sure it doesn't get moldy (from the wood).

I've never raised spiders (if that's what these are). I know there are people here who know more about this than I do. Maybe the outdoor temperature part is not that important? I find it easier to have my galls and acorns in my house so I don't forget about them ... critters have consistently emerged, but who knows what hasn't emerged.

I look forward to hearing about future developments with the eggs. It's great you found the sac again!

If you have spiderlings (or whatever) emerge that you want to raise (maybe they'd be easier to id when larger) hopefully someone here can help with that. I have no idea how easy or hard that is. Or you could photograph them right away and release them back where you found them.

 
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How long do you think it will be before I see something ?

 
how long 'till hatching
Maybe you should post this question in the forums section so that more people will see it -- I don't know the answer. I'm sure it's partly weather/temperature dependent, and also dependent on the family/species. I would guess it would be between 2 days and 6 months, assuming they are viable. :-) Sorry, not too helpful here...

 
Update
These guys have still not hatched. It looks like it has changed some though so I'm hopeful.

 
spiderlings
if you get spiderlings (likely)
try feeding them collembola
but they may also like eating each other

looks similar
to this and this

Someone needs to rear whatever is in these things so we know what they are!

 
Clubionoid egg sacs
I've been reading up on eggs of all sorts of invertebrates, and I'm confident that these things are all spider egg sacs. The taxonomy has been re-shuffled over the years, but these are hunting (non-web building) spiders of the Clubionidae and related families, including Gnaphosidae.
Sam, I'm not sure if yours has a metallic shine to it or if it looks like that because of the flash, but flat metallic egg sacs are made by Castianeira ant-mimic spiders, which are now placed in the family Corinnidae.

 
No
it was due to the flash. It's a web around it and it did have sort of a "sheen" to it but not metallic.

 
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It's possible it is a Sac Spider because I found a spiderling crawling on my jeans here and Lynette thinks it might be a Sac Spider baby. The little one was in the same area as this was. As a matter of fact, I was sitting in the very same spot when I found both of them.

 
It's possible
but I've found that unless I actually see them hatch it's not wise to assume they are related just because they are found in the same spot. That being said, I agree that they are spider egg sacs.

 
Yea but
did you see Charley's comment above ?

 
So, Sam...
Are you ready to become a foster parent?

 
uhhhh
not if it's an alien!

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