My husband and I booked a hotel room for our vacation. In the room, I discovered this. I’ve been staring at it for half an hour, but I still can’t figure out what it is. Does anyone know what it is? The answer is in the first comment.
That strange object dangling from the top corner of the door trim is a spider egg sac—specifically, the distinctive egg sac constructed by a Brown Widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus). While common house spiders create smooth, round, cottony spheres, the brown widow builds a highly recognizable capsule that looks like a tiny, spiked khaki ball or…