Steatoda picture thread

[Tleilaxu]

This is a thread dedicated to the black widow wannabes the spiders in the Steatoda genus, here are some pics of Steatoda I have had or currently had, you will notice they are on bugguide, but I can assure they are mine

My uniidentified female, which I presently own.

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This one is a deceased female I had that made itself noticed by eating a prized wasp queen that got loose...(possible Steatoda triangulosa)

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My house is loaded with Steatoda sp

Now lets see your pics, and maybe we can rivial the widow picture thread!

 

[Widowman10]

here are some steatoda species of mine:

borealis:

grossa:

ha- i even got some widow shots on the steatoda thread! ;P

and you will never rival the widow thread...

 

[Widowman10]

also, i'd say your first spider is S. borealis. that would be my guess.

 

[rasputin]

Damn, I need to get a new camera! I could have had an amazing shoot of my female S. triangulosa molting last night. And I've got 8 S. grossa females, 2 with egg sacks and one juvie that appears albino. I think I have pix of a few of mine from last year in my photo album on here but I'm not sure.

 

[Tleilaxu]

Here is my other spider, its likely Steatoda triangulosa but still too young to tell.

@Widowman: As soon as Buthus comes in here we will post picks of that Steatoda eating that widow

Anyways here are the pics.

And here is a feeding series of the other Steatoda:

^I like this one because you can see her using silk to restrain it.

Later today I will get pics of "wild" Steatoda living throughout the house....

 

[Widowman10]

@Widowman: As soon as Buthus comes in here we will post picks of that Steatoda eating that widow

or i could post pics of my widow eating a steatoda! ;P hahaha

anyway:

 

[Tleilaxu]

I went hunting for them and got pics, I found several but only managed to get pics of two of them. So here are the wild Steatodas



I will probably toss them a bug or two to help them out....

 

[Tleilaxu]

As promised I toss both females a bug, one got it right away, the other was more shy and got it later, here is the pic.



Now come one people its your turn to post pics!

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Nice black grossa

Few closer shots