Help me ID please?

C Porrata Doria

Arachnopeon
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I saw this lovely lady in the tunnel of a train station when I went to school every day. She was on the wall and almost every day someone would nervously try to swat at her. So I decided to catch her, she already hadn’t laid an egg sac when I first tried. After the first attempt she disappeared for a week and a half and then emerged on the ceiling of the same tunnel with two egg sacs! One had already hatched and the babies were everywhere so I could only take her and the unhatched sac. I’m sorry about the quality of the photos, she’s upside down and I can’t get any good shots from the top without destroying her web.

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Ungoliant

Malleus Aranearum
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Parasteatoda tepidariorum. (Those papery egg sacs are diagnostic.)

These guys are fearless predators, often taking much larger prey than themselves. They are often found in and around manmade structures.
 
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