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Black Widow

(Image credit: Biology Department of the University of California, Riverside.)

A black widow spider spinning egg case silk.

Stegodyphus spider

Stegodyphus spider.

(Image credit: Joaquin Portela)

Stegodyphus spiders are social, living in nests of hundreds of spiders..

Wolf Spider Cannibalism

(Image credit: Shawn M. Wilder)

A female wolf spider, Hogna helluo, consuming a male.

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