Spider ID help

hemingway

Arachnopeon
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Jun 13, 2005
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Hi there folks. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can give with an ID on this spider. My wife found three of them behind some stored boxes, with lots of egg sacs. They're about 1/4" across, if I had to guess, and make pretty disorganized webs. Sorry the picture isn't great - I just shot it with the portrait lens I already had on the camera, with the spider in a drinking glass before we released him outside. Thanks for your help in advance.

Kris

 

Widowman10

Arachno WIDOW
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Jan 25, 2007
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steatoda, or false widow spider.

looks like a triangulosa too.
 

hemingway

Arachnopeon
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Excellent, and thanks for your help. Now I can reassure my wife that these aren't some kind of tiny odd-looking black widows. She was a little worried.

Kris
 
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