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We think it might be a Callobius severus? Found on the back side of a piece of osb that has been leaning against my house for years. Weather was around 50F daytime.
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- Submitted: Dec 8, 2021
- Photographed: Dec 7, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Everett, Washington, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
These pictures show how beautiful and diverse spiders can be. There appear to be at least three maybe even four species of spiders living under that board in this photo. The only one I’m unsure about is the molt at the feet of the, you guessed it, Callobius severus. I say this because that molt is the right size for a sling produced by this C. severus earlier this Spring. The second confirmed species is the egg sack at the top left. That belongs to something small, probably 1/2 the size of the molt in this photo. Other than the… Read more »
Oh my, I forgot one. There is another egg sack at the feet of the T. domestica that doesn’t belong to the aforementioned spider species. That egg sack is similar to the first egg sack in style but larger, more in line with a Ground Spider (Gnaphosidae spp.).