This little black spider jumped off the wall when it saw me coming with the camera. It landed in the dirt upside down and held still enough for me to get a few images. It was probably 1 or 2 mm in length (not counting legs). Is there an expert in ventral views of tiny spiders living in Michigan, USA? Seen on March 23, 2018.
Dear Martha, you can send your pictures to Lorenzo Prendini, curator in Natural History Museum of NYC. I bet he could be of great help.
Although it's a bit difficult to give a correct identification with these pictures, I would say that's a female probably Steatoda (Theridiidae). Hope that helps!
Thanks so much! We get a lot of these cobwebbers. I have another spider (posted on iNaturalist about a week ago.) A neighbor brought it to me. I managed to get photos of her and also made a video clip which turned from .mov to .mp4 when I ran it through the software to trim out bad cells. I also have the unshortened .mov file and can send it to you. Let me see if I can do this on the send file facility. Nope, it's too large. I'll send you the .mpg file from my server. Just a moment.
Here is the mp4 version of the trimmed-down video clip of the unknown spider. It is only (!) 14.09 MB.
Thanks for your response on the other spider, and hope this one doesn't give you any trouble. :-)
Martha
Hi Martha the image its blur but i opt for a steatoda female your geolocation will help to confirm.
You're talking about the second spider, the one with the video? It is a female for sure. I am at
Lat: 42.249002
Lon: -84.732923
Accuracy: 187m Thanks so much! Do you use iNaturalist.org? I'm using the geo-stats from them. Thanks again!
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