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Latrodectus
Identification
Date Taken
August 1, 1969
Caption
Black widow spider with egg cases. The spider is feeding on a grasshopper nymph. Alden M. Johnson, photographer.
- Subject
- Eggs
- Type
- Photo
- Subject
- Sign
- Subject
- Live Animal
- Life Stages And Gender
- Egg
- Life Stages And Gender
- Adult/Sexually Mature
- Anatomy
- Female
- Behaviors
- Feeding Behaviors :: Capturing/Manipulating Prey
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Classification
- Kingdom Animalia animals
- Class Arachnida
- Order Araneae
- Family Theridiidae
- Genus Latrodectus
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