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tufted spider egg sac

tufted spider egg sac
Colchester - Macrae Farm Park, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
October 17, 2007
Size: less than 1 cm
Just thought I'd throw this into the mix, since other recently submitted images reminded me of it-- see http://bugguide.net/node/view/163156/bgimage.
The green thing lurking behind the egg sac is an unrelated assassin bug nymph. The egg sac and bug were inside a curled leaf.

Similar egg sac - Euryopis funebris

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Similar to those
of a Latrodectus geometricus (Brown Widow)

 
Yes,
I'm now thinking it's some kind of theridiid, but brown widow in VT seems pretty unlikely... plus I've seen brown widow egg sacs in GA and they're not quite the same. I collected one of these in Tennessee recently, but tiny wasps were all that emerged.

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