Help with egg sac identification?

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sirPinski

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Hello everyone! I hope it's okay to ask for help here - I'm trying to figure out if I should be concerned after finding a few of these in our basement ceiling. Thanks so much!


 
The wolf

The wolf

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Doesn't look like a widow sac to me but I'm not too experienced with these guys
 
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sirPinski

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ArachnidSpecilist said:
You will probably have to wait and see when it hatches. Send us a picture when it does.
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Haha, dunno how my wife's gonna take that one, but fair enough. Thanks!!

My secondary concern was brown recluse (we're in central NC, so right on the edge of where they live), but looking online it seems that those tend to be attached flat to surfaces rather than suspended, and typically would have hatched late fall, so hopefully we're good there too. If we get any spiderlings I'll report back, thanks!!
 
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sirPinski said:
Haha, dunno how my wife's gonna take that one, but fair enough. Thanks!!

My secondary concern was brown recluse (we're in central NC, so right on the edge of where they live), but looking online it seems that those tend to be attached flat to surfaces rather than suspended, and typically would have hatched late fall, so hopefully we're good there too. If we get any spiderlings I'll report back, thanks!!
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That's for sure not a brown recluse it looks to probably be a theridiidae like steadota or the like
 
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It's for sure a Steatoda sac. Here's a macro shot of one I took last week for comparison. upload_2018-2-20_19-58-0.png
 
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