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Located just north of Houston texas under a kids play table. Any help with ID would be appreciated.
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- Submitted: Apr 3, 2020
- Photographed: Apr 3, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Houston , Texas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Is it big like that because it was about to lay eggs? I dont k ow anything about spiders.
Hi, I think she’s a Brown Widow, Latrodectus geometricus. Yes, you do know something about spiders. 🙂 The females get more spherical and large as they get closer to laying (ovipositing) eggs. She will make a silken sac to hold the fertilized eggs in. Here’s a Spider Fun Fact: Female spiders have an opening (epigyne) that males place semen into when the female is old enough. She stores what she collects for when the eggs are large enough. When she oviposits the eggs into the sac she coats them with some of the stored semen. That allows the females to… Read more »