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Picture ID 192480

Picture of unidentified spider

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Can anybody help me identify these spiders. They are relatively small, about 5mm head to abdomen end (not including legs). I found about 5 of them together about an garden bed, and they seem to be relatively a communal species.

  • Submitted by: 
    Iona Burwick
  • Submitted: Dec 2, 2023
  • Photographed: Oct 25, 2023
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
  • Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
  • Found in web?: No
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Nod

I think these are possibly Pardosa wolf spiders.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/621652
Pardosa spiders tend to be present in large numbers. In fact when early naturalists observed large numbers of these spiders scurrying across the ground together, it was thought that they hunted in packs… hence the name. Wolf spiders are in fact solitary hunters, but the name has stuck, and is applied to members of the family around the world to this day.

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Iona Burwick

Thank you!

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BugmanDan

I agree with Nod.

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