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Adult female w/ egg sac - Phrurotimpus borealis - female

Adult female w/ egg sac - Phrurotimpus borealis - Female
Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
July 4, 2013
Size: ~3mm body length
Found on a wall indoors. Chances are I brought her in on my clothes when I was out in the woods last (trying to get mosquitoes to bite me!). I kept her overnight, but when I went to check on her the next day she'd made an egg sac on the damp tissue paper I normally keep with spiders.

A little while after I took this series, she left her egg sac and didn't seem to have any interest in returning to it. I got the ventral/epigynum shots and put her back, but she still isn't guarding the sac again. It's mentioned in Dondale & Redner 1982 that females abandon their eggs, so it's not surprising. I'll release her tomorrow unless she changes her mind.

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