Comments & ID Thoughts
I have no idea what spider this is
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- Submitted: Dec 17, 2020
- Photographed: Dec 10, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Basement or Cellar
- Found in web?: No
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Sorry, bad news for you. It’s a dead or dying Cellar Spider. It looks white and bumpy from the parasitic fungus that kills them by using their bodies for nutrients and transportation to spread fungal spores. It’s a type of “zombie parasite” that takes control of an animal’s nervous system to make the host do things against their will that spread the parasite, ultimately killing the host. It’s pretty creepy.
Fortunately, it’s species-specific and won’t spread to humans.