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Can you tell me what spider this is. This is from my friend in Georgia?
This spider comes back every night with a large web. Know what it might be?
Thanks
These are found all over my house. Something bit me but I don’t know what bit me.
Looks like a Hobo Spider from what I’ve seen online.
Any clue what it is?
Hi my name is Kelsey, I was wondering if you could help me identify a spider. I was cleaning out my basement and was grabbing for a box and this guy startled me half to death because of his size! I was wondering if you could identify it so that I know whether to be concerned if there may be more down there. I’ve tried searching on the internet, but I can’t find anything.
Any idea what kind of spider this is?
Can you please tell me what kind of spider this is?
I live in north central Wyoming and found this spider outside my house. It was probably 3 inches long overall, brown or black with yellow markings. Not anything I have seen before, and nobody I have shown it to so far has either. Any help would be appreciated.
This spider came out into the bedroom at a house that we were renting in Taos, New Mexico. Large spider but couldn’t find a matching pictures?
Thanks,
Mike
I came across your posts on badspiderbites.com. I was hoping you could help me identify some spiders I have come across in my house. They all look similar. The pics are of two separate spiders though. I live in northern Indiana. Thank you.
Hey,
I live in Northern Indiana and I have a spider that has been with us for a month now. It normally comes out at night, and hides during the day and rebuilds it’s web at night. It’s web ranges anywhere from 2ft x 2ft to 4ft x 8ft. Today I have noticed that she/he did not go into hiding and is still on the web. I have attached a night time pic of it when we first noticed it, and a pic I took today while it’s out during the day. If you could please help me to figure out what kind this is, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kate
I found this spider in my house, can you help me identify it?
Found this in a compartment in an air pump – south eastern Louisiana
I found this spider on my porch about 6:45 this morning( Brea, Ca). It freaked my husband and kids out. The picture is bad but the spider is about 3″ around with a 1 to 1 1/2″ abdomen and head. It has a tan body with dark brown stripes on the legs. The end section of the legs is a dark brown or black, there are dark brown spikes on the legs as well. The underside of the body is a reflective color a cross between white and silver. The head is an odd shape, it almost looks like a crab. Also, it seems to have an extra set of arms near the face, or maybe fangs? I showed the picture to my students and now we are set on identifying it as part of our science class. Thank you for your time!
Any clues on what this spider is?
I’m Located in Davis, CA
Thanks!
I found this one on a plant in the garden size of body 1″. Like to know what type it is since it was so close to house. I live in NYS.
Hi
I have Awoken from my bed, witch has happened two times in two weeks with a bite mark.i thought it might be a blood boil, but the bite has a wormie line coming the bite.
Not sure what it is.
Thanks,
Justin
My friend appears to have been bitten by an insect or spider, but we are having trouble identifying what it was that bit him. His symptoms are intense burning and itching, a rash all over his body along with pain. If you can help us figure out what it was it would help us a lot!
me and my mom sat down and i saw a brown no hair spider we looked very close to it. my mom said don’t go to close it might jump at you i screamed the next day we woke up it was gone but there was eggs on my lamp shade but my brother caught the adult one if you know what it is reply thank you.
katie
I had find a small and brown spider in my bedroom. If anyone knows what it would be please answer me on here.
Hello, I live in southeast Ohio and I woke up at about 7am for school (its my senior year) and I saw this very light brown spider almost clearish in color, I did not have much time to react and I grabbed the closest thing to me and smacked it away and I can not find it. I’m not scared of spiders but I’m curious as to if it is venomous to humans or not.
Hey I am in Northern Kenya and the locals here are scared of a spider they say is small black, with grey hair more poisonous than a black widow and powerful enough to kill a camel. I have searched constantly online for this spider but I can not find it. Can anyone help with this?
I had a weird spider fall on me while i was sleeping my cat alerted me to something. it was a dark red spider with a white ish sac like thing for its rear when i killed it the sac oozed slime out. what kind of spider was it???? please help if u know?
I found a greenish yellowish brown spider in my boyfriends apartment tonight and I have a 10 month old baby and I would like to now if someone could help me identify it so I can try to keep them away please and thank you!
I have what sounds like the same spider Leah Winkler posted about on the 29th. Black, round, fuzzy body, no apparent abdomen separation and flat legs that are over 3″ long . reminding me of a child’s drawing as well.
Spider we found is an orangish brown with red-black zig zag patterns on it’s abdomen. It was about the size of an eraser on a pencil. It was found indoors in Wisconsin. I have searched everywhere but I cannot find a match. Please help! Have picture if that’ll help. Let me know. Thanks.
I have a spider that is black with long legs and its body is simply a round oval and doesn’t seem to have an abdomen. Its overall look kind of looks like a child’s drawing. I can’t seem to find the name of the spider anywhere or even a picture of what it looks like to post.
We have a spider here in central Florida that I can’t identify.
It’ small florescent green with florescent orange spots under it’s abdomen.
What is this spider called?
I got bitten Dec 11, 11 Sunday evening and did not feel it,so when I took a bath, I noticed that on my left arm it is big area like 2inches by 3inches red, swelled and has a hard cord in the middle of the bite on my arm,it just don’t look good . So I went to the Doctor , he said I did not Needed a antibiotic but now I have blister on my finger and I going to call him back and see what else can be done. I do not know what kind of spider bite me? It still is big, red like purple color too on my skin.Wish me luck.
I know what kind of spiders I have…I have Jumping Spiders.
My question is “Do They Bite?”
I hope someone can answer this question for me.
a all dark brown or black spider with 3 white type of dots on its back and 2 white dot types on both undersides of it
We live in North SF bay area California in the redwoods, coastal next to a stream.( not bragging just information on the spiders habitat). I will send a picture of the spider.
What is it is it native. I put it up on another site and they came up with a number of possibilities but non really fit. Find them all the time. Do not think they make webs. I believe this is a female, am I correct. Color is about right a bit orange and red. I enhanced the picture so you can see the detail and it changes the color a bit. Also I did not use a flash.
She (I believe) is non aggressive, poses for pictures! Think, they are rather cute! Does not try to get away so I can get it out side. It is about 1/2 to 3/4 in size (leg to leg not the body size.
I do not kill bugs including spiders, (hornets, flies and yellow jackets, the exceptions) . Saw a black widow once but she hid in a hole in the wall. I have escorted jumping spiders all the way outside the front door! Have kids so need to keep them safe. The experts say that there are no brown recluse colonies in California. They hitch hike in luggage when people move from back east. One expert said that most so called brown recluse bites in CA are not confirmed since they do not have the spider. So I am not worried about them. Besides a redwood forest has little light no ground plants very few insects and it very wet cold and dark in the winters. Not much can make it thru the winter.
Just curious. They are almost family!
i found a spider bite on the crease of my leg and it was swollen to about the size of a quarter and it a had pimple like tip so i poked it with a needle. Well, i did and it drained a brown bloody like liquid and i asked my friend to look and she said it was a spider bite. but i cleaned it out and the next day i had a hole in my leg about the size of the end of a cigarette…not sure if its poisonous.. Anyone care to help tell me what it is?
P.S. I live in Kentucky.
My roommate and I found this little guy (or girl) in the bathroom. We are in western PA.
We were hopping someone could try to identify (or lead us in the right direction) of what kind of spider he/she is. Sorry in advance for the poor quality pictures.
my mom said she was walking outside in a school campus working at night between 6:00-10:00 and on a light fixture, she said it had a big body as if u were to put your index finger to your thumb making a ring,then its main body color was orange with black spots i found it weird because i live in Ontario,CA and here you don’t usually see spiders that big can you help identify it?
Hello. I live in western Kentucky, so I’m used to seeing spiders, but I saw one today that I’d never seen before and it’s got me worried, since we have brown recluses here. It was maybe the size of a nickle, legs included, and had a very dark brown or black head and legs, with an ivory, unmarked abdomen.
It had a very light build, definitely a web-weaver, and was completely hairless. Not sure if it helps or not, but it was in my sink when I found it, so maybe it prefers damp areas? I’ve looked on every site I could find of Kentucky spiders, but so far I’ve not found any that look remotely like it. I don’t *think* it’s a recluse, but I’m not sure, because it seems like some are lighter or darker in color than others. I have cats, and I’m terrified a recluse is going to get ahold of them. I’d greatly appreciate any help in identifying it.
I do not have a photo, but two of these spiders have shown up in two days. They are all black, are hairy except for back, which has like 3 white dots and a white dash. T he most distinguishing feature were these “two eyes” they are a beautiful florescent green. i live in southern fl. I will try to get a photo. thank you
I’ve only seen this spider 2 times in a year…if it’s a spider..our encounters are very brief..he is round..about the size of a half dollar with about 6-8 legs and he hops.
I live in a basement apartment and the cat has his food on a table located in a storage room attached to the apartment where I saw this creature the 2 times. Not sure whether it is dangerous or not…As I said..only saw him 2 times and that was in the room near the cats food dish. I live in Fairfield County Ct. What do I do..I have sprayed the surrounding areas..
I live in central Michigan and have found two of these spiders within the past month in my home one came running out of my bedroom and the other was in my bathroom just sitting outside my cats litter box. They have red legs, a black head and a tannish-light brown abdomen with a darker stripe going halfway down and including the legs about the size of a quarter. I would like to know if it may be poisonous.
Hi, I don’t have a picture I live in northern FL southern GA. I found a spider with a small black body, a black little butt thing whatever that thing is with reddish looking circles down the middle its legs are black by the body then they r light brown and then black again at the tips, it has the red hourglass on the belly like a black widow but every pic I looked at of the black widow none of them looked like this one. I have seen black widows in my yard they are black with nothing on the back and on the belly they have the red hourglass. The pics of the males and babies didn’t even look the same as the one I found in my home.
Hi, I am in Los Angeles California and I saw a really interesting spider that I had never seen before while on my way to class. I would have taken a picture, but I forgot my camera this morning. It was medium size maybe like a nickel and was very hairy (the kind of fuzzy that reminded me of a tarantula). It was grey with a pretty big bright orange Abdomen (which also seemed to have brownish edges upon close examination).
It had very distinctive big fuzzy mouth that was either the Palps or the chelicera. The back and medium legs I believe were shorter than the front which were pretty broad. Normally I am terrified of spiders, but the reason why I was so interested and stopped was because as I stopped and looked at it, it suddenly lifted it’s head to look at me! And I was like, what!?!
The head moved! I ushered it out of the street and watched it squeeze under a light, instead of crawling up something so I assume it doesn’t make make big webs in the air like other spiders but instead is a burrower or trap spider. As it was fitting into the crevice it’s body was vertical, but it bent it’s head forward (which kind of has a dome shape on top) into the crevice first then moved in. It was actually kind of cute, but I am sincerely hoping that whatever I got out of the street wasn’t a harmful spider and now I have freed it onto the world.
I know I wrote a lot and it might still be pretty vague without a picture, but I hope you can tell me what it was?
I was sitting in the living room with my fiance’ and i saw this little thing crawl under my blanket. It really freaked me out…. It was a little spider and I’ve never seen one like it before. It kind of looked like an ant so I was confused for a second… but it’s legs were short and black, and so was it’s little head, but it had a huge gray butt… Too bad it got smushed or else I’d give ya’ll a picture… I live in northern Indiana and if anyone knows what the nasty little critter is please let me know =]
There is a brown spider in a huge web outside one of my windows. It looks similar to the one posted by “Jami on 9/11/2011 at 1:34pm” except the abdomen is a little darker brown, has short, fine, hair on it and has two eyes (small black dots) also on the abdomen. I live in Southern California, could it still be a brown recluse? If not, what?
Found a black hairy spider that was a bit bigger than a Australian 50cent piece when legs are tight to it’s body, the underside of it’s abdomen has 2 orange dots about 3 mm apart from each other and underside of joints on legs are blue.
I have been finding these in my basement for the last 3 months or so. I’m up to about 10 so far. One made it to my second floor. Can you help me identify this and let me know if I need to hire somebody to come take care of them?
Thanks.
Please let me know what kind of spider this is found it outside my window its the size of a 50 cent piece, its rear sack the size of a dime.
I live in southwest Michigan
Hi!
Just found your site today and hope you can help!!
I just found this spider, hiding in the leaves of a ficus tree in my yard. I live in Santa Monica, CA. I thought it interesting it wouldn’t move no matter how hard I tried to shake it out of the tree. A good hider, I guess!
I have a feeling it’s been there a while, because a web kept appearing in the same place for awhile, but I could never find the spider!
Thanks!!
David,
That sounds like an orb weaver, based on your description, but if you can send a picture to badspiderbites+jen@gmail.com and I can get it posted for you. If it is an orb weaver it’s harmless, they do us good by eliminating a large population of bugs like mosquitoes and flies. They aren’t venomous and won’t hurt you.
Need help on what kind of spider I found in a persimmon tree. It’s as big as a silver dollar. Looks like a big biscuit on top.
Hi I live in Scotland, Ontario, Canada.
I saw this spider in my house this morning and I’ve never seen anything like it before. The picture quality is not very good as it ‘scared the living bejeesers outta me!’
The legs are red and there is a white round ball in back.
Thanks.
My cousin lives in Maryland and found this spider in her house!! I’ve tried searching it but can’t find a thing. Any ideas?
Thanks 🙂
Hey ,
I was walking around my house when I was this huge web going down from the electrical box the the ground . There was the spider that was a little bigger than a quarter while scrunched up . But when it moved its legs made it about 2 quarters big . It was brown and had yellow stripes on its legs . ( If I can I will put a picture . )
I know it wasn’t a brown lacruse or black widow because I have seen them . Please let me know what it is and if its poisonous . Thanks ! (:
I found this spider on the high ceiling of my staircase; it was not in a web. I live in Northern California and am not sure what type of spider this is, can you help me identify it? It was at least 3″ wide; shiny orange body with black toes.
I found a spider in my bed it looks black maybe a dark brown with barely noticeable dark brown stripes down the abdomen. it has 3 little yellow spots in a row down the abdomen my phone is dead right now but i can post a picture when its charged since i have it in a bottle, the abdomen isn’t round though its flat on top kinda looks like a crab shell and the spider is very hairy and the pinchers are blue.
the only reason i ask is cause i have a bite on my face and it has a bump that is about an inch long and is shaped like a tube3 instead of a mound it causes my face to swell up completely on the left side and unfortunately the hospital is closed till tomorrow i’ve had this bite 2 days and i’ve become recently light headed is there anything that i can do?
I live in Michigan and I was wondering if someone could help me identify a spider I found. It’s probably the size of a dime. It’s got a light brown/grey body with a cross on it and a black. I can’t find it anywhere online
I found this small kinda medium reddish brownish spider on my bathroom wall. It has a small body but the legs are a little bit longer then its body. I know that its not a house spider because I know what they look like. But I’ve never seen this kind of spider before. Any ideas on what it might be?
Had one indoors the other day, not sure what it was. Very furry and coal black. Too big to fit under the dresser. Legs and all bigger than a silver dollar. Main body was at least half dollar size if not just a little over that. Didn’t get close enough to see any other markings. Moved fairly quick too on the hardwood floor.
So i found this small spider in my bathroom trying blend into the white walls of the bath tub. It has brown legs, head, and thorax. But it’s abdomen is black with a whitish line going down the center almost to the spinnerets. I’ve looked all over for a picture to identify this little guy, but no luck.
Hi,
I am a rural route letter carrier in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and recently came across this spider on one of my mailboxes. I apologize for the quality of the picture as I only had my cell phone camera. Someone told me it was a pumpkin spider, but I have looked those up and have not seen anything like this.
Life’s short, eat your dessert first 😉
Hello,
I just stumbled upon your site and hoped you could help. We just had our first baby, a girl and she is sleeping in our bedroom with us right now. We were startled to see what our dog was barking at uncontrollably last night. My wife is worried about this being near our baby, as am I. Any thoughts on the type of spider it is, is very much appreciated. We live in Roeland Park Kansas, basically Kansas City.
Thank you,
Mark
I got this from my daughter-in-law who lives in AZ. They found this spider in their garage. Says it moves from side to side like a crab. Concerned about children getting bit. Do you know what kind of spider this is in the photo and whether it is poisonous? Have tried to find this spider on the internet but to no avail.
Thanks for looking at this photo.
Sincerely,
Janet H.
The cobweb is between our front shutters and bush. We live in the metro Detroit
area (Bloomfield Township). Can you identify this for me. I can’t seem to
find any photos of it on the web. We just want to be sure of what we are
dealing with as we begin to work in that flower bed!
Thanks!
The Jones Family
Hi I was wondering if you know what kind of spider is in the attached photo. We’ve found two in our apartment in central Indiana. Thank you for the help.
Sincerely,
Branden
Hi there!
I live in Jackson, Wyo. and couldn’t seem to find what type of spider I found amongst my shoes this afternoon. I’m glad it wasn’t IN my shoe so my foot could find it. I caught it and took some pictures. I’d really appreciate it if you could help!
TC
Could you please help me identify this spider?
Hi I live in California on Edwards air force base and I found a light brown spider that has only four legs and the legs don’t look like they were tore off either. I don’t know what kind it is so can you help me.
i found a completely green spider in my garden, it weaved a type of net in a leaf covering it.it had a white back and a black mark there.it was about the size of a fingernail. i live in Kathmandu in Nepal
can you please help me identify this spider?
I live in Northern Michigan and saw this spider yesterday afternoon on the kitchen window.
He seemed too large to be a Jumping and the wrong body for a Wolf.
Any help in regards to identification would be much appreciated!
We live in Kansas City and just had our first baby, a girl. In our room where she is sleeping we were shocked to see what our dog was barking at last night, any idea what kind of spider this is? Thank you.
Found a spider in my outside electrical cover..It is and orangish yellow with black markings on its back, the body is kinda humped. It has a big black spot on it stomach, legs are kind of clear with red and black markings on them. I have it in a jar at the moment and when you shake the jar a little it sticks to the jar. There is no web for him to stick to..Can someone help?
Yeah, I found the same spider that Keegan found on my garage door in the corner. I pet the spider and i brought in the house today. I put it in the aquarium and fed it some crickets. It is really fat i think it is pregnant. It has a white cross on it’s back.
found this big spider in the back yard, I live in so. cal. It’s body is as big as my thumb from my knuckle joint to the tip of my thumb and it’s entire body is light orange in color, its butt area is as big as my thumb nail and the legs stretched out to approx 1 1/2-2 inches, it moves pretty fast and makes a good sized web, I can’t find any pictures of it and am thinking of doing it in before he decides to have me for dinner lol. Can any one help me with identifying it? Thank you
REPLY TO MICHAEL B. – I live in Columbus, OH and found (to be what looks like) the exact same spider in a large web hanging from my house today. I have not been able to identify the spider either. I’m interesting in learning what this spider is and if it’s dangerous.
Hello! I was hoping that maybe you wouldn’t mind helping me ID this spider I found on my back deck tonight.
I turned the back porch light on and found him crawling away from my back door. I’m in Northern Virginia and my backyard leads to a heavily wooded area and park land beyond that but I’m in a suburban neighborhood of Fairfax, Virginia.
This spider seemed like it was coming out from under the house and in this case I just want to make sure that this spider is not dangerous.
Thank you!
Mary
This large spider has been camped out in its web on our back deck in Chicago IL for about 3 weeks.
What is it and is it dangerous?
I found a spider in my basement bathroom and would like to know what it is. It had a bright red body & legs except it had a brown butt and it’s two legs toward the end of it’s butt was also brown. It was maybe about an inch long including it’s legs. I was going to try to kill it or catch it but it ran away really fast. Hopefully it’s harmless.
@ Shauna- do you live near a lake or pond? It might be a fishing spider- they are brown with a white () markings huge bodies and long thick legs, had one in my bathroom once when we lived next to a lake, it was so big at first we thought it was someone’s pet! When we tried to kill it it got aggressive and lunged at us- scary! I’m not a fan of spiders!
So I killed a spider I found in my closet floor today. It was small, thin, was brown and had two yellow stripes going down the sides of its body…I know it wasn’t a brown recluse since I didn’t see a violin on its head. I live in Middle Tennessee and it would be nice to go into my closet and not have to worry about being bitten by a poisonous spider. It moved fast. Could it be a weaver spider? Please help! My boyfriend hates them!
Hey….for the past few weeks, have been dealing with spiders, large, brown spiders and they are everywhere. Found one on an evening on my pillow. They go by so fast I have little time to kill them but when I do, they roll up in balls and crunch. I am on the first level of the house and in fall/spring, get spiders and in winter, mice. Would rather deal with the mice.
These terrify me as I am afraid they are allergic and I don’t have antihistamines lying about for the occasional spider bite, or other bug bite in the event I am allergic. Some are small, about 1/2″ to about 3″ long. So fast! I read that we should not kill spiders, but I am so scared of them, I know not what else to do.
Please tell me, please, if I should be afraid of these spiders or are they just harmless. Saw one outside in a web, a beautiful web, in the AM, glistening with dew. Left that one alone. I have a bottle of spider killer near but is easier to kill them manually. Again, please, begging you to help me. Either relieve me or I am calling exterminator.
Thanks….
Gary
There is this spider out side my window and it has like a cream color and a dark brown color and it has like a circle web but then it has red on the top of its head I don’t no if it is a wolf spider or not can, you can tell me please?
I found a grey spider around an inch to an inch and a half with stripped legs and a weird raised shape on its back spinning a web between my shed and pole in my back yard. I live in central Indiana.
I caught a black, shiny spider with 3 red dots on its back( the dot closest to its rear stretches out into a line) & 2 small thin red lines across its under side. The front legs are longer than the rest & its belly is about 2 to3 x bigger than its head. It had a web under the edge of a cat box. It doesn’t have any hair or fuzzy bits. It’s about 1″ (legs included) long with the body & head about half of that. I caught a black widow earlier this year & that 1 was much bigger, but wasn’t IN MY HOUSE. Does anyone know what this 1 could be? Thank you!
I have a question that I would be amazed if anyone can answer, because I have been searching the internet for, like, a year and have yet to find an answer. But there is a breed of spider that frequently invades my apartment. It can vary in size from being a little more than the size of a quarter with legs to the one I saw today which had to be, including legs, like 3-4 inches long.
It was humongous is the moral. 🙂 It is brown. It has on its thorax a lighter brown shape that looks like “()”. And it’s big enough that when I kill it, it leaves a thick brown blood (or something) behind. Anyone have any ideas? I have cats, so I really want to know if it can hurt them. Thank you!
I live in Northwest Indiana.
Alrighty, I live in Sacramento, California. Earlier today I walked through a very large (appx. 6ft in diameter, from my car to a nearby tree) sticky web. The spider had a similar shape to a black widow, but it was larger, yellow, and had different marking on its belly. It was big enough to catch my eye out of my peripherals from about six feet away and hanging out in the open outside. Wish I could have gotten a picture of it, please help me identify this!
I live in southeast Idaho. Under the rail of our deck, I found a spider that has a huge round body. It’s dark brown and it’s legs are striped with what looks like a yellow or tan color. It built a cob web and I watched as it spun a fly into his silk and stored it in the corner it likes to sit in. He’s not visible very often, he just hangs out in the dark corner most of the time. I know it’s not a hobo or brown recluse and it’s not a cat face. I don’t know what it is! But I would love to know!
Keegan, that looks like a garden orb spider. Does its spin a huge round web? They aren’t dangerous from what I’ve heard.
I found a brown spider with white spots in it’s back. It has long brown and white stripped legs. We live in Concoed Ma and found the spider crawling across the drive way this morning. Just wondering what it’s called; we have never seen one like this before. Thanks!
Hello, I live in Albany, NY and just found a dark-brown spider crawling fast across my living room floor. I cannot figure out what it is. The spider has a larger abdomen with white spots that actually look like they are sticking out. The abdomen is not smooth and is covered with the white spots all over the abdomen, but not the legs. He has 2 little fangs in the front.
The spider itself isn’t too big but definitely noticeable on a tan carpet. He is a fast runner too. The legs appear to be lighter than the body itself. It almost looks like a diseased spider the way the white spots look on the abdomen. Any idea? I’m so scared of these spiders, although I did just bring in my plants inside because it’s been getting colder outside. I wonder if this spider is from my plants.
My husband saw a spider in the woods here in TN. It was fat, yellow with orange legs with tiny black spots on the legs. Does anyone know what kind of spider this was? I have searched on the internet at so many sites, looked a spider pics, and haven’t found it yet.
@Scott and his “largish spider in the garage.” That looks to me like a “White-banded Fishing Spider,” Dolomedes Albineus. It’s a beautiful specimen, too. It’s hard to see the eye-pattern for sure, but it’s likely 8 eyes set in two rows, with the top row in a slight curve. The prominent hairs on the first leg segments (closest to the body) are also a possible identifier. Just Google the Latin name.
My brother saw this spider in our yard today, it’s red and it’s abdomen was the size of a small strawberry. It was in a web, and a beautifully done one at that. I live in Portland, Oregon. Can you please identify it for me. I have a picture of it too.
I just found a spider in my OK apartment although I think it may have possibly come back from the dog park with my lab and me…at first I though it was a Hobo spider or a wolf spider, but on the under side of the abdomen is a yellow mark shaped like a heart with an extra little hump between the other two.
The entire yellow mark is outlined in black. It’s the size of my thumbnail (not including the legs…looked a LOT bigger with those!) and didn’t seem particularly aggressive because it was just crawling along next to my dog without attacking it. Although I freaked out and killed it fairly quickly… Anyway, just wondering what it might be since i’m new to the state. Thanks for any help!
Spider I found here in So. California, was tonight, taking down my Yellow Ribbon, (my daughter returned today from her 2nd tour in Iraq) and inside this ribbon when I brought it into the house, (It is a 12 inch dia. ribbon). a black spider, with semi-hairy legs, rounded back black, with 3 yellow spots, they look yellow. It fell out of one of the loops of ribbon, and clinging to the loop was a nest of babies.
So small but moving. The nest was a sack like white protection, clinging with goo to the ribbon, pretty well. I washed them down the garbage disposal. Inside another loop was another sack, and these babies looked a wee bit larger. the mama spider, assuming it’s a female, climbing up the coffee can I caught her in, looks as if she has two bright neon green fangs? Never saw a spider like this, and don’t know if she is venomous? Help? I have her in a coffee can with one of her nests and a flower. I don’t want to let her go if she is venomous. Real creepy looking
I have killed 6 dark brown spiders in my house in the last 2 days. They move very fast I haven’t really studied them I also do not have a picture. I live in a log cabin house and they are also in the buildings are my house. I have also seen them outside as well. If anyone has any kind of answer please let me know thanks.
dennis the spider you found looks like an arrowshaped micrathena
hi, I’m so hoping you can tell me what this weird spider mis, first of all I live in upstate NY. The spider seemed to be aggressive toward me when I got close to it. It is the size of a quarter and it has a large orange hump on its back, maybe a little yellow, but not much on its hump also, it has brown and whitish legs that have hair on them. I cant seem to find it on the computer anywhere. Please can you help me???
There has been this spider outside our front window all summer now. She looks like she has a peanut shell for a body, and these striped legs. Does anyone know what she could be??? We had an awful storm yesterday and she was holding on to her web (what was left of it) as tight as she could and trying not to blow away. I felt so bad, I brought her in and put her in a jar with her latest kill, and some water. She seems to be doing better. It is nicer today, so I am letting her go free this afternoon. What kind of spider has a striped peanut shell like body?
I found this spider in my yard this morning after it stopped raining. He was standing in one place poking his legs around and moved very slowly. He’s all scrunched up in the pic but with legs expanded, about 2 inches wide. Has a rock-like texture with two black eye-like dots on its back and gray stripes on the legs. I live in Eastern Washington State and have never seen one!
My husband and I found a pretty large spider in the car this morning. I live in Nevada and I have never seen a spider like this before. It had a fat yellowish greenish abdomen and pretty long legs, as I stated before it was pretty big so I know it was not a daddy long legs. If you could help me identify this spider that would be great.
My mom found this spider on the kitchen counter in our Southwest Michigan home. She said she noticed it was on water when she was capturing it so maybe it’s one that is attracted to water. Never have seen one like it before, I call it’s front “feelers” little boxing gloves and my boyfriend says he thought they looked like little crab pinchers.
This is not a picture we took of it, but this picture looks exactly like it, but it came with no info on the spider when I found it. Our spider is a bit more hairy and just a little darker brown. The actual size of the one we have is about 2 1/2 to 3 inches leg span. Please help me out and tell me what type of spider this is!!! It’s so ugly! haha
Amber
i have a spider that is the size of a nickle is tan mostly and a tan butt with a white stripe down it with little white dots surrounding the white stripe.
Hi! I found this spider on a blade of grass back here in the Philippines. It’s small, yellow, and the abdomen and legs are slightly orange/brown. I really need to know what it is. Thanks in advance!
I live in Boise, ID. I found this spider in one of the lights on the outside of my house. Any idea what it is?
I live in western Michigan, and found a creeper in a web near our breezeway. Its black, with yellow detailing on its belly. On top its almost green in color. It has black and brown striped legs, that it likes to keep in 4 sets of 2.
I found this spider in my aunts driveway…there has been a lot of them in the house but this is by far the biggest i have seen in the last couple of days…i don’t think it is poisonous but I’m scared to death of spiders and I just want to know what I’m dealing with….
I don’t know how to put pics on here haha but it is a light brown spider with a darker back and head….The back of the spider was a lot bigger than the front…the legs were a light brown with a dark brown band around where the “knee” would be.
brown spider with 1/2 inch body, and legs just a bit longer than that and it lives in my house in Massachusetts. i can’t find any identification that looks like it.
I found a spider in my strawberries, in the garden. It had a button mushroom type body and also around the size of a button mushroom. It was white. Can anyone identify this for me?
hey Matt I may have some information about those seven spiders in your pool email me under christine_wiener [at] yahoo.com. i found the same one in my pond in the backyard and my instructor at my school wants me to take to their lab some ill have more info on it Monday or Tuesday but it would be nice if catch some in a jar with gloves because they bite. When i first saw it i thought it was dead too but they are very much alive. Please email me i am sure my instructor wants more to look at in the lab.
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I found the spider in Nepal, in a National Park. The spider is black, except for the back body, that was orange. The back of the body was long, the “head” was very round. The spider was about the size of a credit card (a little bit bigger maybe), it was wider than it was long. The two front legs were longer than the back legs. The front legs were curved. I think the spider fell out of a tree while we walked trough the jungle.
I would really like to know what kind of spider it is.
Thanks!
I saw a tan spider with a black back and a brown stripe in the middle and tan legs. I would like to know if is is deadly. Please Help.
I found this little bugger in my basement. I’m scared of the little creepers and with my husband at work, I had to step up, so I scooped him into a paper CD Case and took pictures of him. He is brown with brown legs and a black body. He has a brown stripe down his back. I tried looking online and I can’t find what kind of spider he is. If someone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. I live in Ontario Canada. He may be just a regular house spider but I want to be sure.
Thank you in advance:)
Eden K.
I sent you a picture of a spider, could you please tell me what kind it is?
I found this spider in my back yard this afternoon by an apple tree. I don’t know what kind of spider it is and I cant seem to find any sites that help either. If anyone knows, please let me know. Thank you!
Live in Olympia Washington Area, and found these spiders in Nieces kiddie pool… Can’t find a match online. Anyone have a clue?
Don’t know how to do img tag, link is just a basic photo of spiders, yes, plural… 7 of them were found dead in the pool. There is a quarter next to them for size reference.
My Niece, Brother and Sister in law say thanks in advance 🙂
It is a brown bodied spider found in Pittsburgh, PA. The butt is big and round and looks kind of like a mushroom. The legs turn from brown to yellow or red (striped) and are long . The spider is not really that hairy, some on legs. It has a black abdomen and has 4 white dots on it. Anybody have any clue what kind of spider this is?
I found a spider. It has a yellow back with a brown and black belly with yellow detailing. It is fairly large and has black and light brown striped legs. I don’t know how to post a picture otherwise I would.
I saw a spider with light brown body and legs with brown stripes on them and a dark brown abdomen with a black stripe with white stripes I live in Niles, Michigan can you help me?
I saw a spider in my bathroom floor which was about 2 inches long with about 3 inch long legs.In color it was brown with dark colored legs and two yellow stripes down its back.I think it may be a wood spider but not sure.Can you tell me for sure?I live in Arkansas.
Me and my cousin were looking out on our porch at a spider that is tan with a cross on it’s back. It looks exactly like keegans ( a earlier comments ) picture. we have no idea if its poisonous or not or what kind of spider it is.
To Dennis M.,
Your spider looks like an Arrow-shaped Micrathena Spider.
I live outside of Philadelphia, PA and came across a spider with a yellow and black body with red legs. Does anyone know what kind of spider this might be?
Hanging from a single strand of web, I saw a medium brown spider, about the size of a nickel. It had a distinct white cross (like the Christian cross) on its back. Anyone know what kind this is, and if it’s dangerous? I want to make sure it will not affect my dog.
Thanks!
about a month ago, i was putting my shoes on in the car while i noticed this very small black spider on my shoe, it was black with 6 red dots on the top of its abdomen in a die/dice pattern, my mum said it was a widow, but i wasn’t sure, because all the pics i’ve seen that had black spiders that had red dots were 3 in one single line, is the spider im talking about a widow or no?
i live in Wisconsin, again the spider was very small, black and had red dots on the top of its abdomen in a die/dice pattern, and the the web/silk was stickier than most webs
My friend living in Montana took a picture of a neon orange colored spider with tiny spines all over it’s body. It doesn’t look like there are any other colors – body and legs are both orange.
I found a spider in my bathroom this morning. I need help identifying it. It looked like the legs were black-and-brown striped with a black back. The body is close to an inch long, I think, and the back end is pointy.
This spider was found outside my home making a web (as you can see) late in the evening… The next morning he was gone, but later that evening he was back….
Gross – Can you help me identify?
I live in Cleveland, Ohio – Picture was taken about 2 wks ago.
Very curious as to what this is. I live in New Jersey. Sorry for the bad quality, I was too chicken to go near the spider. Its about 1 and a half inches long, orange on the legs and a bit of red on the head.
My sister found a yellow and brown patterned spider with red and white stripped legs. We live in northern Illinois…any ideas?
I found in out upstairs room a pure black spider with two white stripes going down its back. I live in northern new jersey
This one has been living outside our door, His name is Raphael 🙂
Is he a Brown Recluse?
Hi,
We are in San Francisco, finding a new infestation of spiders. They have an African Mask sort of marking and are about 1/4-1/2 inch across abdomen. They trap insects and web fast! The colors are beige, tan and brown markings. Seem to be on top of the plants and stringing from tops of plants and trees. Thanks.
I came home from vacation and noticed a huge web and what I saw was the biggest,scariest looking spider I have saw in my area,I thought stink bugs were bad but I have never saw anything like this outside of t.v.! I looked for it the next day and it was not there so I was a little relieved but, during that evening it was back and it appeared to have gotten bigger! So because I have children and im scared to death of spiders because I never no which one’s are harmful and not to mentioned it only comes out at night so im very concerned where it goes during the day as well. Its the size of a humans thumbs,drown,with black dot on its belly and brown and black leg.
I am trying to find out what kind of spider is on back porch it has a around yellow body with black poke a dots on back and yellow at bottom of legs, it is not smiley face crab.
we found this spider in our house on the wall, we live in Virginia beach. can you tell us what kind of spider it is?
Saw this largish spider in my garage, can you help identify it please?
This spider was outside my home today.
I live in west Michigan…large web..outside my window.
Last night I found a spider in my backyard that had a shiny red abdomen with one white stripe, and white going around the sides of the abdomen. The head and legs were black, and this was a very very tiny spider! (much smaller than the pillbugs we were collecting, for lack of a better example.) I live in Southern Michigan, I haven’t been able to find the spider on the internet at all, and I didn’t have time to take a pic before it ran off. Please help me to identify this!
When I was a kid there was this abandon car from the bottom of the widow door down the web was that big and it was black and rainbow colored quite big. I don’t know if its possible to have rainbow colored spiders in Michigan but I’m scared of them and I never forgot it I cant find it online.
Greene NY I have a small about 2-3 centimeter spider always crawling in my bedroom. looks black.
While mowing our backyard I found these two spiders, the large one I think is a tarantula. The small spider I found already squashed on my patio, my neighbor thinks it’s a backdoor spider. I’d like to know what you think and if you know if it is poisonous?
I saw a spider in my vegetable garden today that I had never seen before and cannot identify. It was black and had yellow stripes going up and down the back with a yellow stomach area. Does anyone know what this is and if it is toxic or not. Thank you.
a few years ago i was hiking at Pine Hills park in indiana and by the river i saw a huge gray spider. the body was thick and about 3″x 1″ with thick legs about 4″ long; it was NOT hairy; it had a lighter spotted pattern on its back. with legs it was about 10cm. what in the world was it???
In Portland Oregon I have 2to spiders in my front yard with beige legs with dark stripes. Both have 2you legs in back or front not sure that stick out and form a “U”. On their underside they have a marking that looks like a cello or violin. Can someone tell me what they are?
We found a spider in Missouri climbing my blinds. Its body was about an inch long, it was all brown with a dark brown pointed line from its head to the middle of its back and it had a pointed rear. What is it?
I have the same spider above an air conditioner that Keegan has pictured. Does anyone know what it is? It’s out from dusk to dawn and then hides (I’m afraid in the AC or in the house) during the day.
Please identify this spider for me. It was found in a geranium on the north side of our house in the state of CT.
Thank you!
i found a spider in my truck today, it has yellow and black stripped legs, a brownish semi hairy body, and is about the size of a quarter, can someone help me?
PS this was found in new york
While picking grapes, I found lots of little spiders and some not so little ones. I live in middle California, and have a grape vine growing over the fence and into my tree. The webs seem to be quite thick, and some have funnels in them.
The spiders are a very pail yellow, almost white, the biggest one I saw looked a little hairy, but the little ones don’t. I haven’t been able to find anything like them online, and so can’t identify them. I’m worried they might be some kind of Brown Recluse. I have very little children (the oldest being five) and I want to protect them from being bitten. I don’t have any pictures, because I killed any I found.
I found this yellow back spider hanging on a web off of my roof-overhang in the Western North Carolina mountains. Can you please help to identify.
Michael
I found this spider yesterday night. He spun this web by the garage door probably to catch the bugs that fly around the light. He is has a width about the size of a cigarette butt. his body length is probably half to three quarters the length of the yellow part of the butt. These pictures are what it looks like with its legs not spread out. These are pictures of the read top of the abdomen.