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Vegito1089 Phoenix, AZ Apr 16, 2013

Got lots of babies.. Should I be worried?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 16, 2013

The image is too fuzzy for a definitive i.d.; the only medically significant spider in Arizona that looks anything like this is the brown widow - see http://sarasota.ifas.ufl.edu/IPM/BrownWidow.htm for images and detailed information. Their egg case is very characteristic, being quite spiky in appearance.

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Vegito1089 Phoenix, AZ Apr 16, 2013

Im sorry for the bad picture. I cropped out the rest of the image. Its a very skinny and small spider (Its body is about length of a penny). Legs are very thin. I think the spider already had its egg hatched because Im seeing other spiders all over the room. Should I be worried? Is this really a brown widow? I saw this spider biting a german cockroach. The roach was dead because I smashed it and threw it aside, it happened to land on spider web. The Spider wrapped it around in web, then it bites onto the roach for a few minutes, then it took like a 10 second break from biting then bite it again and never letting go. I hope this helps a little..

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 17, 2013

As mentioned earlier, I cannot i.d. your spider from your images. I provided the link to the brown widow only so you could compare that with your spider, not because I thought your spider was a brown widow.

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