I found this egg sac under the rim of a flower pot on a neighbors porch. He was limping, and I asked him what happened; he showed me a nasty spider bite on his foot, and said he never found the spider. Well, if you've browsed my site at all, you probably noticed that I'm curious - so off I ran to search the area where he got the bite. Bingo! I found both the egg sac, and the mama spider. He was extremely happy when I offered to take them to my house.

Now, I generally keep my critters alive, but after seeing the bite, I opted for a quick rubbing alcohol bath for the spider before I got too close a look at it.

That curiosity also led me to gently pull open the egg sac to see what was inside. LOTS of perfectly round little spider eggs rolled all over the place:

I took pictures of the spider bite.