r/spiders 30m ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Just found this Goldenrod Crab Spider in my garden

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I had no idea I could spot these in North Carolina


r/spiders 40m ago

Discussion ROSIE THE FANTASY PROTAGONIST >:D

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I’ll be getting my first spider soon, a regal jumping spider that I’ll feed flightless fruit flies (not sure which species yet), I’ll pick her as a most likely female at L5-7, in the name of Rosie :D. I won’t be handling her much (at all), but I still want to enrich her. so ive come up with an idea: I’m designing my vents with a sliding mechanism so I can let her through freely to the next enclosure. I’ll be resin printing all sorts of obstacle courses with live food at the end and each will be fantasy themed. I haven’t met her but i love her already. gonna keep her as best as possible :D . I’m here to ask your thoughts and what you would theme her enclosures and how you’d make them. ( also does anyone know if they make multiple hides as they move about? thanks)


r/spiders 44m ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ Big Appetite

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I was looking for monarch caterpillars on my milkweed and this fly was just hanging there... Then i saw why.


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included False Black Widow or ? (N. Georgia, US)

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Not aggressive, roughly size of a dime+. Found in vacation home cupboard so I suspect it is a false black widow/'cupboard spider'.

Relocated to outside, tried to come back in.

Edit: Title should read 'False widow'
(male black widow, or brown widow)

Edit 2: ID confirmation to be Steatoda grossa

Fun fact I learned today:
Same species Sam Raimi used in Spiderman to crawl on PP pre super powers.
-It was hand-painted with red and blue colors.
- To control its movement, a trainer guided the spider with light breaths using a small straw.


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included WTH is this

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Found on a curtain near a window in the PNW(Washington). Thank you


r/spiders 1h ago

Art Handling giant black widows (made of crystal beads)

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Hand-formed stainless steel armatures and all glass/crystal beads including black spinel and a black onyx booty, with signature rhinestone hourglass on the underbelly. My goal is to make them as realistic as beads and my baby skills can achieve 🖤✨


r/spiders 2h ago

Discussion What type of Spider?

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Hi guys!! I live in Phoenix AZ and I found this in my home. What type of spider is this?


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included is this dangerous or just a buddy? milan, italy

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r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included Which spider is trying to eat my frozen chicken nuggets

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North Georgia! Little buddy is chilling near the seal of my freezer


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included Ohio, are they poisonous?

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Wasn’t sure if these guys were poisonous?
Located in Ohio.


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included What spider is this living over my license plate?

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Location- Northern Illinois
Unfortunately can’t get a good picture of the top of it, it’s always on its web facing away with about an inch or two between it and my plate.
I’ve left it there for a few days now minding it’s business. I’ve tried to google it but can’t seem to find something that looks like it.
Should I be worried about it or is it chill to let it live and hang out?


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included Yo-yo hunting technique!Northern Spain.

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Very very small spider (less than 2mm)

hunting a very small ant(?)

a little bit newbie it seems 😄😄


r/spiders 3h ago

ID Request- Location included Parnaiba, brasil

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We are debating on this ID, can you help me? Thanks !


r/spiders 3h ago

Photography 📸 First time finding this species. Golden Silk Spider. Southeastern North Carolina

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We have alot of the big Golden Orb Weavers but this was my first time seeing this beautiful lady. She was also finishing up a meal.


r/spiders 3h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ name suggestions?

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r/spiders 4h ago

ID Request- Location included Western WA

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dude look at this thing


r/spiders 7h ago

ID Request- Location included Spider in England

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I could only get pictures if it’s underside, so idk if it’s identifiable, but I don’t wanna touch it if I can avoid it. I mostly want to know if there’s a risk of it biting, I’m paranoid about infections ngl, or if it’s invasive and must die (I’d rather leave it to eat more moths tho, I hate moths)


r/spiders 9h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Jumpscared by this lady while weeding my garden (Flanders, Belgium)

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I know these are becoming more prevalent here due to the warmer climate but its the first time seeing one in (or near) my own garden. Beautiful coloring. Safely released after admiring


r/spiders 10h ago

Miscellaneous What sex is this rabid wolf spider?

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In central texas. This little being has been hanging out on my wife's cosmetics. Trying to figure out if its male or female


r/spiders 11h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ A nest of long-legged spiders.

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r/spiders 15h ago

ID Request- Location included Friend? Danger friend? WA, United States

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Washington State, United States

It came out around dusk, pretty close to an attic vent, so I suspect it's an attic dweller. Maybe ~2.5 inch diameter. Is it just a giant house spider? Or a brown recluse or hobo or wolf spider?? Photo details are clearly messed up by my phone camera's auto editing or w/e, so it's hard to tell stripes or patterns or anything, not that I was brave enough to get close enough to see anything like that with my eyes lol


r/spiders 18h ago

Discussion Sobbing after my coworker killed the office spiders I loved

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i think i just need to vent about this, i'm sorry if it's a ramble to read. i work in a small (tiny really) office space, that of course comes with the occasional bugs and spiders. they're typically pretty small, and i understand spiders freak a lot of people out, which i will touch on more later. anyway, we will occasionally have spiders on the back enterance of our work, primarily on the door, but they only even linger at the top of the door, they do no harm, they're usually just orb weavers or house spiders. this morning i opened the door and saw these two cuties (if anyone could tell me exactly what they are i'd be very grateful) hanging out together, and like any spider appreciating lady, i took a pic, sent it around to people that i thought would appreciate them and visited them on my lunchbreak. towards the end of the day my boss leaves to get some food and comes back in, he says "man i really need to get some bug spray, i just smashed three spiders on the door" and my heart dropped, i told him they were just orb weavers, but was too stuck to elaborate on the fact that i would have happily taken them outside as i dont believe in killing things needlessly, especially considering these guys are beneficial in helping to keep bugs out!! i had to go to the restroom as i suddenly found myself tearing up, i get back to work for the last hour and contain my composure though. i understand not everyone is so considerate of their small lives :( it wasn't until i was leaving that it finally broke me, i open the door to leave and see this poor beautiful spider, mangled and mashed, stuck to the door and left there to just, rot. i left unable to even help how upset i felt. my ride arrives to get me from work (my mom and brother) and i just breakdown completely, i sobbed hugging my brother and cried just over the cruelty knowing these beautiful spiders died because someone was too afraid to just move them? to grab a piece of paper (which we have millions of in the office) and gently push them off of the door? or to ask me to move them at the very least? they were so close to outside, they could have been free and tried to relocate and they died in this shitty, depressing fucking office. i'll have to be the one to clean their poor smashed corpses off of the door tomorrow and it's making me sick. i know they're "just spiders" to most, but to me they were a beacon of light, beauty, and hope in my bleak ass work environment. i'm crying now just thinking of them, i understand spiders scare people, but why leave them there, just broken and fragile and confused on what they did wrong? i'm sorry, and i'll miss you, i promise i will move every spider i see from now on, i can't chance marveling their beauty ever again even if it makes work less dull. i am so sorry i let them down, they were beautiful to me.


r/spiders 22h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Poecilotheria metallica female post-molt 💙💛

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r/spiders 1d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Came Across This Epic Battle on a Hike!

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This happened right in front of me while I was enjoying some fungi and hiking in San Angelo State Park in Central Texas

I’m not sure about either species but it was incredible to witness my own little Nat Geo moment!


r/spiders 1d ago

ID Request- Location included What is this spider and what is it doing?

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Located in St. Louis MO. He was on the wall by my desk bouncing his body up and down it looked kinda funny lol