Sphodros abboti spiderling. - Sphodros

yes, but...

I would like to know how you are certain this is abboti,
I would like it if you could (or someone would)
put these photos together and
the webbing is almost certainly from ballooning,
which is wonderful you caught it.
I've seen S. rufipes ballooning on Block Island RI, end of March
congratulations! (whatever the species)
and the paper you referenced evidently is damaged.

… erichedwards, 22 March, 2009 - 8:37pm

I am not certain!

I just go by the information fron BugGuide and other sources I manage to find on the web. Once Momma emerges from beneath the red-berry holly, I might have greater certainty. More spiderlings came up to the "balloon" today. Counted 9 of them. I checked to nigt, cooling down, and there were none to be seen. Warm sunlight on the 'morrow may bring them back up the trunk. I had no trouble printing the paper from yhe pdf. Thanks for your input.!

… William Donald Newton, 22 March, 2009 - 9:18pm

just be reticent

about species from juveniles...
I will check my own adobe program. But I have the paper anyway.
The female will never leave her tube,
any information on how many days they balloon
is positively great.
Sphodros sometimes aggregate
so you might look for others, their silk, the tubes.
Sticking to this is commendable.

… erichedwards, 23 March, 2009 - 8:58pm

Thanks, I shall.

Spiders in general give me the willies. I am a biologist, but there is something about spiders that does not seem right, exquisite beauties of unfortunate anatomy. Guess it's a cultural thing. I have found some beauties, though, in the front and back yard!

Did not find any putatiev S. abboti today. Storms coming in.

… William Donald Newton, 23 March, 2009 - 9:22pm

Not abboti.

A very late comment, but I see that the ID was left hanging. In Georgia S. abboti occurs only in the lower coastal plain. The two options in your area would be S, rufipes and S. atlanticus, with S. rufipes being the likely identification.

… pmoler, 12 November, 2017 - 10:03pm