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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Unidentified Spider Egg Sacs, Webs, Retreats, and Droppings
Photo#446214
What spider please
Copyright © 2010 Cathy Wilson

What spider please
Toledo Botanic Gardens, lucas County, Ohio, USA
August 22, 2010
Size: Tiny
This egg sac was only inches from the spider. It is an egg sac isn't it?
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 23 August, 2010 - 8:01pm
Last updated 25 August, 2010 - 10:56am

Moved
Moved from Uloborus.
Bowl and doily spider is an interesting possibility. I don't think I've seen a description for egg sacs of that species, but other linyphiids are known to make fluffy white egg sacs.
… Charley Eiseman, 25 August, 2010 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
oops...
Thanks for moving this one Charley.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 August, 2010 - 11:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Lynette Elliott, 25 August, 2010 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

Egg sac
This is a spider egg sac, but it doesn't belong to that spider if the spider is Uloborus, as it seems like it may be. Was the web horizontal?
… Charley Eiseman, 24 August, 2010 - 6:46am login or register to post comments

 
Hi Charley . . .
The web is just a titch off vertical. That egg sac is less than a foot away, but the rest of the birds nest spruce is covered with bowl and doily spiders.

Update: So now I'm reading in one of the comments about Uloborus that the webs are always horizontal. Good grief. I'm going to have to go check this out again, but honestly - it sure seemed more vertical than horizontal.
… Cathy Wilson, 24 August, 2010 - 5:33pm login or register to post comments

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