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Palystes
(Rain Spiders)

Picture ID 7991

Picture of Palystes (Rain Spiders) - Female - Egg sacs,Lateral
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Entomologist_97

A female huntsman

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ItsyBitsy

Hi, this looks like a Rain Spider (Palystes sp.) guarding her egg sac. (Same family as the above suggestion, spiders in the family Sparassidae are commonly called Huntsman Spiders).
http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/arachnids/spiders/sparassidae/palystes_superciliosus.htm

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