Any ideas on what kind of spider this is? Main body is a little over 1cm long, location is US, northeast coast.
He now continues his search for love outside.
About 1cm. Spotted in Albany, on a rocky beach, but it could have traveled on my caravan from Greece to Albany.
When I moved my phone closer he (she?) tried to jump against it.
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Ignore the dirty window lol. Had them in our house for over a week in that spot now, but this is the first time they turned around. I find the legs mesmerizing
Hi everyone, first post here,
I'm in Dublin, Ireland. I rescued one of them from a box that was about the get shredded and the other from the laundry before my wife killed her.
I then added them to my terrarium.
The one from the box was in a bad shape, with a broken leg, which has since detached and it was very lethargic, it is now a happy and fat spider after eating a couple of flies.
The other went through a molt already!
They are small ish, around 4 cm legspan? And the abdomen pattern is one of the most gorgeous I've seen! Golden spots.
Can you help me ID them? Also, are they female? Or are they the male of a the giant house spider?
Southern California. It jumps. Lost legs unfortunately trying to catch it. Released outside.
Discovered the spider at my residence in Baltimore, Maryland on the ceiling in the crevice where it meets the wall. As per the rules, I won't state the results of my extremely novice efforts at identification -- any help is appreciated :)
In this corner, we've had a large female widow for a year or so, but haven't seen her in a couple weeks. There are a few Pholcidae around, but this looks different. Maybe 10-12mm long legspan.
I've been watching this guy for a couple weeks now, he's visibly growing, which is cool to see, I've never observed one specific spider over a period of time
Context: some days ago, I commented in a topic about Argiope bruennichi that I had a similar spider living on my kumquat tree, later identified to be Argiope argentata. And @[email protected] asked for an update, if she laid eggs.
So, here they are. Sadly I couldn't even notice that she laid eggs, let alone photograph the egg sac. But hey, I got little cute spiders~
Here's their mum, Kumoko:
Went camping in northern Michigan this week and I was quite popular with the local biting flies.
Delightfully, I found this local food samaritan doing their part to save me, and they were gracious enough to show off a little for the camera.
Some kind of beautiful black widow, probably a Northern. Built her web on a bag of potting soil, so I had to scrooch her along. Absolutely gorgeous and huge! She was definitely well fed
Keep finding these long legged lil bros in my home. This is bro number three so far. Any idea what they are? Super fast and hard to grab and stick in the rescue jar.
I apologize for the sub-optimal lighting in a slightly dark corner of my living room.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might be? The location is North Carolina, USA. I'm no expert, but looking around at some photos, my best guess might be a grass spider of the genus Agelenopsis. Hopefully this isn't too mundane of a spider for this community.
The size I would estimate is around 15mm or so. Fortunately, they were a very cooperative photography subject and did not move while I went and grabbed a ruler for the last image below.
A photo from The Invertebrate Portrait shortlist for CUPOTY 5, 2024
Post photo found on flickr
Above Image 'Zebra Spider [lat. salticus scenicus]' by Rawbert|K|Photo, flickr
I really love those big eyed friends! Very fast and curious!
Camera Nikon D7000 with enlarger lens Nikkor EL-50/2.8 using two macro extension tubes and a special selfmade flashlight construction using the Nikon SB-600.
Above image, 'Zebra jumping spider, Salticus scenicus' by Frank Hendre, flickr
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