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Large 2 inches , found three in pool and one inside house. Lived here 40 years this is first time ever seen.
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- Submitted: Jan 28, 2020
- Photographed: Jan 27, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Live Oak, Texas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Neighbor cleared English Ivy that had taken over ally and climbed into tree. I suspect that is where they came from.
It might be Sphodros paisano, a Purseweb Spider. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1329882/data I don’t know if this link will work if you don’t have a Bugguide account. Please let me know if it doesn’t and I won’t link it this way in the future. Yes, moving the ivy probably pulled their webs and exposed them. That would lead them to search for new locations. It’s still good to get English Ivy off of a building and out of an alley. When people hire me to work on their yards I remove all vines and tree limbs out of alleys. I imagine what it… Read more »