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I’d love to know what kind of spider this is. I found it inside a bureau I’m restoring, after I noticed a bunch of baby spiders crawling on the outside of the bureau.
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- Submitted: Feb 8, 2020
- Photographed: Feb 8, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Enfield , Connecticut, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
I apologize. The babies were not found in their web. The Mom was. Please see my other photo to view mom.
Any help in identifying them would be much appreciated.
I think these might be males vying for “mom” Male spiders are often smaller than females. When a female reaches a certain level of maturity she broadcasts pheromones and the males seek her. The smaller spiders appear to have enlarged pedipalps. The pedipalp is an appendage that is a sensory organ and a reproductive organ. The males can carry semen around in it. They place one or both palps into an opening (epigyne) in the female when they mate. The “in web” is a default setting that has to be unchecked. I don’t know why it was done that way.… Read more »