Common House Spider - Parasteatoda tepidariorum
by Carol Senske
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Common House Spider - Parasteatoda tepidariorum
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Carol Senske
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Photograph - Photograph
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These spiders live with us but you may never really notice them unless cleaning dark corners or looking closely on the outside niches of your house. They are not aggressive toward people and are kind of chicken, as a matter of fact. If they get scared they often pretend to be dead or drop down from their web and run for the hills. They mate and lay eggs at any time of the year, and each papery egg sack can have, on average, 100 to 400 spiderlings that hatch. Other spider do eat these guys. If you noticed the gray pile of round-looking things out of focus on the left, that is a bunch of newly hatched spiderlings. The brown papery thing is an egg sack.
This picture was taken August 25, 2013, in Green Lane, Pennsylvania, USA, on the outside of our house under a window. I used the Canon T4i with my Tamron macro lens (1:1).
Here's a little write up you might enjoy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasteatoda_tepidariorum
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March 3rd, 2014
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