- Author: Cheryl A. Wilen
Published on: September 18, 2011
I was playing with our new puppy today and was rolling around on the back yard with her. As it turns out, there is also a birdbath where we were playing and I happened to look up when I was under it and found a bunch of burr-like sacs underneath.
Photo by Rick Vetter
These are egg sacs of the brown widow spider and the sacs are so distinctive, that even I knew what they were. Here is what they look like to me:
I even found the spider itself and have to say it was a lot smaller and more delicate than what I expected. Even though its overall size is about the size of a quarter, the body is tiny, like a drop of water.
Photo by Rick Vetter
If you want to know more about these newly arrived spiders and others like it, see the Pest Note:Black Widow and Other Widow Spiders
If you do happen to find some. Rick Vetter at UC Riverside is asking folks to send them in for his research project. See more information at his website,http://cisr.ucr.edu/brown_widow_research_2011.html. I put mine in a bottle and am sending to him to Monday.
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