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Is this Sphodros niger? - Sphodros niger
Copyright © 2009 john and jane balaban

Is this Sphodros niger? - Sphodros niger
Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 16, 2009
Size: ~15mm
Do we even have pursewebs in Chicago? This guy was just walking down the bike path that runs between the Chicago River and an open oak savanna.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 June, 2009 - 2:29pm
Last updated 18 June, 2009 - 9:21am

Cool
and someone just found an almost identical one in VA. See this one.
… Lynette Elliott, 17 June, 2009 - 3:28pm

Holy #$%&!:-)
I never would have guessed they range that far north, either, but yes, that is what this is....I know we supposedly had them in Cincinnati when I lived there, but I never saw a web, nothin'....
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 June, 2009 - 3:32pm

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