Gallery: Spooky Spiders
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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
(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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