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Group of spiders all dead can not identify any of them.
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- Submitted: Jul 6, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 6, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Payson, Utah, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
They look like orb weavers or cobweb spiders of some sort. The one on the far bottom left is a bug of some sort. The mud structure in the bottom center makes me think this was a store of spiders that wasps captured for their young, but then their structure fell apart. Was it under any overhanging structure?
We did conclude that the mud nest was made by a female mud dauber wasp for her young to feed on the spiders but the spiders themselves have been a puzzle. We just know they were collected and stored in the mud nest as food.
Could you send several pictures of individual spiders close up? Those might be easier to positively identify.
Thank you so much though for taking thetime to look and comment I really appreciate it!