Comments & ID Thoughts
What are these? Are these yellow sac spiders?
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- Submitted: Feb 4, 2020
- Photographed: Feb 4, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: St. Mary’s City, Maryland, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
I think they’re young Nursery Web Spiders, Pisaurina mira. They have the same shape, P. mira are larger and have some form of wide stripe down the back. Sometimes it is thin or just dots. Yellow Sac Spiders have a short greenish stripe that starts at the part of the abdomen closest to the cephalothorax. This species has at least 6 different markings variations of the stripe. These might be young males following the pheromones of a female who is ready to mate. They are able to jump up and forward. It can be surprising, but they aren’t dangerous to… Read more »
Thank you for the response!