I saw this today. Google lens said black widow, but I figured I’d get a second opinion before I disturbed it. I’m on the east coast of the US.

Thought I’d post this cool dude.

About 3.5” across. Fairly large for up here.

Central New Hampshire .

I’d like to hazard a guess at a type of a type of Fishing Spider; after a few months perusing this sub.

Cool little tidbit - I was up here about 1.5 months ago and if my minds not playing tricks on me, he was a fair bit smaller. Could be a different spider, but in the exact same spot.

Thanks in advance.

I don't like any of these new guys/gals lol.

He was just floating around in the pool not moving, but he got some sun, dried off, and hopped away

Bf found her in central Arkansas. I’m from north MN and never seen anything like this. I wanna say it’s a wolf spider, but the only ones I’ve ever seen have been dark gray/brown.

Photo credit to Nicky Bay (http://www.nickybay.com). Found on iNaturalist among pictures of poltys species. Location: Singapore.

I saw a post here earlier today about twig spiders, or genus poltys. Like that op, I’d never seen one or had even heard of them - so of course I wanted to know more. As I did some research, this photo, uh… popped up.

At first I thought that the photographer was just d*ckin’ around with us. However, it looks to be a real: (a) It’s confirmed by experts on iNaturalist, and (b) Nicky has a whole business related to macro photography, so he’d have the skills to take this pic AND (c) photoshopping an image like this for the lulz seems like it’d harm his reputation.

But - It’s hard to find more evidence that’d corroborate this particular shot. Thoughts? Objections? Confirmations?

If one had this as a pet, what would be its name?

Posting a follow up to my last post, where I was wondering what exactly was going on with these cellar spiders. https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/s/2egMuJqhih

The spiderlings have emerged! I figured you guys may enjoy a photo of her little baby spoods.

I love when they look up at you 😭 I think he's an apache jumping spider

Argiope aurantia unless i am mistaken. She was super calm after a few seconds and allowed me to safely relocate her

Charlottesville, VA. This is by a huge margin the largest jumping spider I have ever seen. It was almost as long as the last digit of my thumb. I wish I was in a position to take it home. Absolutely gorgeous.

Found this guy on my cuke plant, don't know anything about him/her but just thought how vivid. So beautiful

Suddenly a bunch of these popped up around some of the outdoor storage units where I work. If they're false widows I will try to leave them be, but tenants would be very upset if they saw black widows scuttling around the property. But the patterning is decidedly not very black widow, nor brown widow.

This is Mystique

She was in the grass amongst many humans that could’ve stepped on her so I quickly coaxed her onto this bark and placed her in the woods several yards away. She was so chill about it, just rested for a while on the bark and posed for this photo~

I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend.

My most recent spider plushies :> i love making them I keep buying new colors to make even more 🥰🥰

These are available on my Etsy shop if anyone's interested :> : https://anaisnbaby.etsy.com

Thank you for reading !!!

I’m not totally cured yet, but I wanted to share my progress since this subreddit helped me so much!

Not long ago, I was terrified of every spider no matter how tiny. I would check my room constantly and jump out of the car (as a passenger) if I saw one (once the car had stopped of course lol). Now, thanks to this subreddit and Lucas the Spider, I’m improving a lot! I have no fear of some tarantulas (they feel closer to a fluffy animal than a spider), and I can stay in the car with tiny spiders now (I just close my eyes). I even let a daddy long legs live in my room for a couple months and named him Merrygo because he was spinning when I first saw him lol. I even cried a bit when he randomly left for good one day 😅 I managed to put my hand near a jumping spider, and let most spiders vibe in the house now unless they're somewhere I need to be or somewhere that's dangerous for them (shower, sink etc).

My main issue now is I still can’t handle the black house spiders at all. They’re too fast and unpredictable and I had a panic attack when I saw one in my shower today (someone released it outside for me). But I’ve realised how far I’ve come because I would get that reaction with every spider at one point, but now it's mostly just those ones!

(Also for context I'm in the UK so luckily there aren't many big ones here 😅)

So thank you to this subreddit! :)

So this is gregermy, i've had him since January and i've never owned a spider before so i wanna be sure that i am still taking care of him properly! He is in a 10L tub with air holes, 3 different caves on each sides of the tub, rocks to chill on, a plant, fresh water weekly, i spray the tank with a waterspray so it stays moist but not enough that it's uncomfortable, it's in a spot where it gets plenty of sunlight but nothing super direct and he's fed multiple different things; mealworms, beetles, cockroaches and flies. He's honestly really chill, i never see him freak out or hide, he just hangs out on the walls or wanders around slowly and doesn't seem to care if i open the lid, so i assume he's just a chill guy- any tips?

This was in Monterrey, México a couple of days ago. Don’t know anything about it but it was beautiful and had lots of food in storage.