Today at work, we noticed a spider in the small cricket bin. Low and behold we actually find 5 spiders living in the bin, and a looooot of baby spiders crawling around. We got as many baby spiders as we could out and unfortunately we destroyed them. The adult spiders, however, we saved into deli cups to be identified. I brought them all home and I'm hoping to get some kind of ID on all of them. Oh! And we also found 3 egg cases and I saved those as well. I'll try and get pictures of all the spiders to ID, but so far I've been able to get one photo of one of the spiders. Unfortunately, I accidentally snapped off one of her back legs in the process of trying to put her in the cup. I'm calling her a she, but I really have no clue.
Note: I was very careful getting these spiders into their cups, just in case they were venomous.
Another Note: I almost forgot! We are in Richmond, Va but we get our cricket shipments in from Illinois.
Here is the 2nd spider along with 3 full egg cases. The camera doesn't show it well, but 2 of the cases have yellow in the middle (kind of a ball shape) and the other one has individual white eggs that I can see.
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