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Mike Lawton
@mlawton@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I’ve been doing an unholy amount of weeding recently and keep seeing these little spiders fleeing my progress. Many are carrying a tiny white ball and so I looked them up out of curiosity.

Apparently they are “Rabid Wolf Spiders”, which sounds like they themselves got to pick it out and sought something impressively terrifying so that humans would leave them alone. It’s certainly a misnomer since spiders cannot be rabid.

The white ball is an egg sac.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabidosa_rabida

#spider #WildLife

A spider is shown on the ground, positioned near a gray egg sac amidst soil and plant debris. The spider has a brownish body with long legs, blending into its surroundings.
A spider is shown on the ground, positioned near a gray egg sac amidst soil and plant debris. The spider has a brownish body with long legs, blending into its surroundings.
A spider is shown on the ground, positioned near a gray egg sac amidst soil and plant debris. The spider has a brownish body with long legs, blending into its surroundings.
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