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Spiderlings - Latrodectus geometricus
Copyright © 2009 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Spiderlings - Latrodectus geometricus
Irvine, Orange County, California, USA
July 3, 2009
Size: 1mm each
about 100 on a dim light at the poolhouse. FWIW, near where I recently saw a male Brown Widow.

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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 4 July, 2009 - 9:34am
Last updated 15 July, 2010 - 10:00am

Moved
Moved from Widow Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 July, 2010 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 24 July, 2009 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

Keeping an eye on these?
Are you sure of the ID? If so go ahead and move them there, if not I guess we can move them to spiders?
… Lynette Elliott, 24 July, 2009 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

 
I think you can move them to
I think you can move them to spiders. I won't claim to be certain what they are.
… Elliotte Rusty Harold, 24 July, 2009 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

brown widow spiderlings
Yes that certainly seems likely.
… Lynette Elliott, 4 July, 2009 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

 
Does this species live in Cal
Does this species live in California? It couldn't be hesperus?
… Emily Tenczar, 23 January, 2012 - 1:14am login or register to post comments

 
Brown Widow spiderlings
I should have mentioned this when I moved the image, but Elliotte had posted a bunch of brown widow images before this spiderling shot.
… Lynette Elliott, 23 January, 2012 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

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