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Is this an egg on its tummy?
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- Submitted: Sep 17, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 17, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Ramsgate kent uk, United Kingdom
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Is this an egg on it’s belly?
Hi. No, it might be a parasitic larvae of sort. poor spider doesn’t look too well. This type of thing happens now and then. The spider looks to be Badumna species, Their eggs are larger silken orbs they hide in webbed crevices and holes.
Badumna species are not found in the UK, this is Segestria florentina, tube web spider 🙂
Oh thank you so much for answering…. Just one more …what is that under its arm. …is it an eyeball?
Hi.No, their 8 eyes blend in well on the front of their face just above their mouth parts:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1052066/bgimage
Blocked from view by is first leg.
Thankyou BugmanDan…
the pale patch is the book lung, they have one opening on either side of that part of their body.