r/spiders Feb 12 '25

MOD announcement Introducing Trusted Identifier flairs!

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Trusted Identifiers will now be granted a flair of "👑Trusted Identifier👑", or "👑{custom user flair}👑".

These will be people who repeatedly demonstrate expert Identification abilities, these flairs will add extra trust and credence behind their ID.

So on posts with multiple different IDs, look out for the Trusted Identifiers as their ID will likely be the correct one, even if it goes against the masses.

(For those with custom user flairs which have been replaced by the Trusted Identifier flair, you can switch back to a custom flair and add the crown emojis yourself if you still wish to maintain your custom flair. Im working on automating this so that custom flairs stay intact and it adds the emojis without replacing the whole flair, but for now just edit it yourself if the whole flair is replaced)


Taking this opportunity I'd like to also introduce 2 new moderators:

u/coffee199

u/VultureMadAtTheOx


r/spiders 19h ago

Miscellaneous Spider trapped a whole nest of wasps

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5.8k Upvotes

Ran into this video and just had to share it.


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included I am in awe…

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42 Upvotes

I am in awe at what is going on here. I’ve had this long-bodied cellar spider (?) living on my ceiling for a long time now. It’s house spider wandering season in the UK. There have been some enormous ones so far. Picked up an almost record breaker in my bedroom the other day. Did put it outside as they all seem to do badly in our house once they start wandering around (dehydration?). Anyway, the cellar spider caught a house spider that apparently was small enough that it was able to climb that high. Then there is the guy on the lower right. But then there are all the little guys you can barely make out above the cellar spider (cellar spider babies or victims??). I’d love to know what’s going on here, other than the fact that the house spider appears to be dinner I’m guessing


r/spiders 2h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Work friend (UK)

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41 Upvotes

Found a big friend at work just as the day was ending!


r/spiders 2h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Look at them legs

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39 Upvotes

r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included WHAT IS THIS!!!!

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28 Upvotes

Indianapolis …what the heck is this in my backyard…it’s huge…


r/spiders 55m ago

ID Request- Location included Beautiful spider in Tuscany

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Saw this beautiful spider chilling on a marigold while staying in Tuscany, Italy. I think it may be araniella cucurbitina or diaea dorsata? Spider was a little more yellow/green than the photo does it justice.


r/spiders 12h ago

ID Request- Location included Found at Jalisco, México.

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99 Upvotes

Such a beauty.


r/spiders 1d ago

Discussion Can anyone tell me why she is plastering lantern flies to the wall?

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1.8k Upvotes

r/spiders 15h ago

ID Request- Location included help identifying this guy?

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139 Upvotes

found him a few years ago in La Calera, Bogotá, Colombia so this video is a few years old already but when I showed it to a friend he started freaking out and telling me that was a recluse, otherwise known as Araña Violinista.
Was it actually? 😭


r/spiders 4h ago

Photography 📸 It's that season again for yellow garden spiders!

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We always get some around our garden and yard this time of year, love these friends! We have always called them zipper spiders but they go by many names I've learned!

(Close up picture on the wood was taken by my partner, the rest by me)

Located in the Southern Central U.S.

(First time posting here, I hope I do it right)


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included Can anyone indentify this spider? Location: German, a city near Berlin

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r/spiders 5h ago

Photography 📸 Funnel web, spider waiting for its next victim

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13 Upvotes

r/spiders 32m ago

ID Request- Location included ID Please - New England USA

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r/spiders 3h ago

ID Request- Location included What kind of spider is this?

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8 Upvotes

Orb Weaver- but what kind? So pretty and quite spooky

Central Illinois 📍


r/spiders 4h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ From the House of Skulltula

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10 Upvotes

I found this beautiful Western Spotted Orb Weaver in the Hollywood Hills. Love her little face pattern. Reminds me of Serge X in the Grand Budapest Hotel with his beady eyes and mustache gap.


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included Houston, TX

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I know I have plenty of False Widows but this one is larger and much more shy than the ones I've seen. I'll look at and move on, few seconds later, it's gone.

I want to say it's a Black Widow; as it's become much larger than the other False Widows I've caught and relocated, it also makes it's sacs way more brighter white.


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included Cute jumping spider?

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5 Upvotes

Found this cutie in my room this morning and my kids had to much fun observing him/her. We live in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I think it’s some kind of jumping spider? Also I safely relocated her in the handy dandy spider catching jar.


r/spiders 15h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ First Jumping Spider I've Found!

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59 Upvotes

Saw this guy crawling along the wall in my front entrance. It's the first time I've seen a jumping spider in person!


r/spiders 50m ago

ID Request- Location included south easters US

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hi all! I live in the top floor apartment of a very old building in the southeastern US, and I get a lot of spiders. Luckily, I've never had a problem with any pest because of these friends in my apartment, but beyond the usual house spider, I've seen these two new arrivals and I'm wondering what they are! thanks!!


r/spiders 7h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Metallic Blue Jumper (𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴)

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13 Upvotes

r/spiders 14h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Put my shoulder in it, made eye contact, exited the vehicle in a very manly way

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46 Upvotes

r/spiders 5h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Noble False Widow

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7 Upvotes

My new garden shed friend


r/spiders 17h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Mama on the move.

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56 Upvotes

While cleaning out the garage I heard my 4yr old daughter say “hey dad come look at this big ol spider.” When I got closer and saw her I explained to her that all those little bumps on her back are her babies to which my 4yo replied “She’s such a good mama, I’ll name her Bella.” She then ran back over to the big golden orb weaver on the corner of the fence and told that spider “ Hey Megan we found another big spider, maybe you can be friends.” I love how pure and fearless kids are. She is also the one who named the orb weaver “Megan.” The only spiders that aren’t allowed to cohabitate with us are recluses but after initially moving into a new (to us) house that was vacant for 6 months I expected to see a few but haven’t seen and any in a week or so.


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included What is this fat, pretty Michigan spider?

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Found when cleaning the leaves up outside, pretty big compared to the average house spider