#black laceweaver

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Black Laceweaver (Amaurobius ferox)

Observed by theinsectarena, CC BY-NC

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@kieran-carpenter submitted: This beautiful black laceweaver was on a stump outside my work the other day!

Oh wow she IS beautiful. 10/10 would blow a little kiss

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@thexworldxisxahead submitted: I rescued this little fellow from my restroom tonight. Normally, I would have just let it stay inside, but we're getting a bunch of work done in our house so I let it outside to keep it safe(r).

I don't know if the photos are good enough for an ID but, since I haven't been able to come up with one myself yet, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask for one. I'm in northeast Ohio.

Looks like a female hackledmesh weaver, probably a black laceweaver in your area. But could potentially be in the genus Callobius instead of Amaurobius.

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@ariverofsongs submitted: Hello do you accept spiders?

I can't figure out what these little friends are. I haven't seen any bigger than a fingernail and they play dead a lot and curl up in a ball when feeling threatened. They act different to regular house spiders.

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I do, yes! Looks like a black laceweaver as far as I can tell from this photo!

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@verderi submitted: A startlingly large fellow in our sink in central ohio. This pic makes it look brown but irl it looked black and almost shiny? The long pedipalps with white things at the end were neat; ive never seen this kind before. ID please?

Ohhhhhhh a man! And a friend. The silly pedipalps are because he's a male, females don't have those. Anyhoo he looks like a black laceweaver :)

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@the-gay-dad-friend​ submitted: When I was gardening in [removed], (please remove location) I found a few friends.

I'm pretty sure the pupae are cut worms, and they look pretty close to hatching. And I think the spider might be some kind of False Black Widow. I have no idea what the eggs are though.

Definitely could be cutworms! It’s often hard to tell in the pupal stage. The spider looks more like a blacklaceweaver (Amaurobius ferox) than it does a false widow, and the “eggs” look more like galls from gall wasps or gall mites, though I don’t know which species offhand without comparing a bunch of photos.

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hello!!! i’m in western pennsylvania and i’ve been finding these fellas all over my apartment, any idea what kind of guy they are?

The cute kind!! I love this lil friend. She looks like a female black laceweaver. Males have noticeably large and bulbous pedipalps. :)

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@penniger​ submitted: Found what I believe to be a Black Laceweaver, Amaurobius ferox, in my basement.

Milwaukee, WI

Ohhhh he is beautiful I love him! Look at those pedipalps. These are excellent pictures, too, good job. He does indeed look like a black laceweaver :)