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Nursery Web spider
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- Submitted: Jun 17, 2018
- Photographed: Jun 17, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Pittston, Maine, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This beast startled us while we were assembling our trampoline. Fast moving and aggressive – when I touched her with a stick she whipped round and attacked the stick. I trapped her in a jar and released her far away from where we were!
I’m pretty sure thats a nursery web spider, and the females can be very aggressive when carrying their egg sacs and while guarding over their egg sacs/newly hatched young .. when the eggs are almost ready to hatch they will create a special web and suspend the sac.. they guard the sac and the babies until they leave the web.. I HATE HATE HATE spiders, but I think the nursery web spiders are pretty neat!
Yes, I did some research, and I believe you are right. I feel badly now that I moved her from her egg sac.