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    Brown recluse in Michigan?

    Great! Thanks all for the confirmation! I was figuring they were probably yellow sacs, but I wanted to be sure since there are all sorts of crazy rumors running around the Internet. I've seen some yellow sacs in my own home that look a lot like recluses as they mature, so that's most likely it...
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    Brown recluse in Michigan?

    Hello again everyone, A friend and I live in Michigan, near the Michigan/Ohio border, and my friend believes that two spiders she's killed in her apartment over the past few weeks were brown recluse. She's new to the apartment so we don't yet know what its particular flora and fauna are, and...
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    Anyone have pictures...?

    Thank you! When I first caught the larger of the two I thought she was a female, but now that she's gotten bigger her pedipalps have enlarged quite a bit. So it's looking like the original spider is actually a male. I'm hoping the newer, little one is female; it's too small to see the shapes of...
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    Anyone have pictures...?

    Hello everyone, I've got another question relating to my new yellow sac. Does anyone have any pictures or tips for successfully identifying a male versus a female yellow sac spider? I'd like to try to breed mine, but all the yellow sacs I've encountered this far have looked very similar. The...
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    Yellow sac color change?

    As of today my sac spider has spun a proper little nest for the first time. I'm wondering if she's preparing for something--she has been eating but not quite as hungrily, and she spent most of today sitting in her little next and not moving. I at first thought she might be preparing to molt or...
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    Yellow sac color change?

    Here's hoping! I'm beginning to think I must've found her immediately after a molt, which would explain why she was so pale then and she seems to be growing rather quickly now...
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    OH CRAP! Please help!

    I've been doing a lot of research on yellow sacs recently, having just caught a fairly large specimen myself. I would say you probably don't have anything to worry about; apparently they're actually one of the most common house spiders, they just usually go unnoticed. They are much less...
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    Yellow sac color change?

    Hello everyone! A few days ago I found a yellow sac spider (well, she found me, actually--she fell off the ceiling and landed in my drink). I'd never seen such a large or brightly colored specimen before so I kept her. I'm a bit curious now because she seems to have undergone a radical color...
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    zebra jumping spider, some pictures

    Oh man, I love those little guys! I discovered a few of them near my house last summer and had great fun observing them. They almost have puppy eyes!
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