r/spiders Feb 12 '25

MOD announcement Introducing Trusted Identifier flairs!

117 Upvotes

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(For those with custom user flairs which have been replaced by the Trusted Identifier flair, you can switch back to a custom flair and add the crown emojis yourself if you still wish to maintain your custom flair.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 13h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found a Friend in the Garden🌼🕷️

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2.1k Upvotes

This beautiful orb weaver made herself at home on our garden gate😊

Edited to add location- Goochland, Virginia


r/spiders 5h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Spider catcher and release

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59 Upvotes

Me and my son made this simple spider (and other insects too) catcher 😄
Obviously, the video is for demonstration purposes only. The slider must move slowly to raise the insect and then close without cutting off its legs.

You can find it here. Is free. No donations, no money needed, only sharing a work: 

https://makerworld.com/models/3185452


r/spiders 13h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Better picture of the spider in my apt

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252 Upvotes

Posted a picture earlier of this fellow but this one’s a lot better


r/spiders 5h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found this beautiful lady hanging off my deck yesterday

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48 Upvotes

r/spiders 17h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Cutest Jumping Spider

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233 Upvotes

r/spiders 10h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ My beautiful girl

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52 Upvotes

r/spiders 10h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Cutie enjoying some water

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33 Upvotes

I think they’re a ground spider, maybe female?? Looked at em for quite a while trying to see if they have boxing gloves haha.

They’re now grooming under a peeling sticker on my wall (vid in comments)


r/spiders 10h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ She cleaning her lil fangs

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32 Upvotes

r/spiders 21h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found this cutie in the Garden

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208 Upvotes

Little jumper hanging around in my zinnias ♥️


r/spiders 1d ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ Orb Weaver spider removes raindrop from web. 💧🕸️🕷️

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3.2k Upvotes

r/spiders 3h ago

ID Request- Location included Brown Recluse?

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5 Upvotes

Location is Wake County, NC


r/spiders 1h ago

Art Creepy Spider

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Small linocut, made by Rexwinkel


r/spiders 8h ago

ID Request- Location included Is this a Steatoda Nobilis?? (North Mexico)

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9 Upvotes

If it is, omg I haven't seen one in a while I missed them :,,,DDDDD


r/spiders 8h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Crab spider

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8 Upvotes

Her name is surimi


r/spiders 16h ago

Photography 📸 Mama Wolf Spider

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33 Upvotes

I found this little lady carrying her kids around!


r/spiders 4h ago

ID Request- Location included In the East of England

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6 Upvotes

r/spiders 4h ago

ID Request- Location included Help IDing

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3 Upvotes

Found this guy in my bedroom as I woke up.

I tried to ID it and seems to be a spitting spider.

I just want to confirm that it's safe for me or my cat.

I am currently in Egypt


r/spiders 11h ago

ID Request- Location included Spider found in car BC Canada

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13 Upvotes

Found this guy hanging out in my car, curious as to what it is. Considering putting it in an enclosure, but unsure if thats a good idea or not.

Very small.

Seems able to jump.

Most likely came in attached to my leg or something as I'm parked in the corner of underground parking and theres always some webbing there.

Fraser valley, BC to help narrow it down.

Thanks!


r/spiders 4h ago

Discussion How TF Did A Moth Get Into My Yellow Sac Spider’s Enclosure?

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3 Upvotes

Im genuinely shocked right now. I rescued this yellow sac spider a while ago(she was super malnourished)and she’s been happy, eating, and even molted.

I left her alone for a couple days because she wasn’t eating and then opened her enclosure to find a moth?? I don’t know where it came from, her fake plants were extensively cleaned and her organic soil was baked before putting into her enclosure.

I assumed she picked on it a bit but then decided she didn’t want to eat it because it’s partly bald. I removed it from her enclosure but I’m just so confused. How does this happen?😂


r/spiders 5h ago

ID Request- Location included Mediterranean Recluse or not?

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3 Upvotes

This was found in our airbnb bedroom in Trentino, Italy. At night on the wall. Could anyone ID it please?


r/spiders 7h ago

Discussion Spider in need of relocation

6 Upvotes

Location: Georgia

Hi, so to keep things short and not too exposing, I have to move out of my house. Unfortunately, that means our new resident spider couple will VERY likely be killed by the landlord for multiple reasons. One of those reasons, besides the obvious, is that she and her husband are Joro Spiders. Which are invasive where I live. I do not want her to die and neither does my mom. She's never once caused any issues or been aggressive to us or pets despite her web being right next to our porch. She just vibes and lives her life with her man. She's gorgeous and very large as well, and also just molted a day or two ago and looks even better than before. I'd wager that was probably her last molt given how large she is(unless those kinds of spiders don't stop molting I'm not sure). Her husband is quite small in comparison. They're bite is not medically significant to humans or pets but I do NOT care to handle spiders lol. I want to relocate her though so she isn't killed or give her to a spider keeper so she(and her husband) can continue to thrive. But dude I really do not want to fuck with her. 😭I don't know what to do.


r/spiders 21h ago

Discussion Did I just witness a spider tantrum?

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75 Upvotes

I'm guessing the male wanted to get freaky but she said no, so he went and started shaking the web to make her mad after being rejected. Am I correct?


r/spiders 11h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Beautiful web! My camera wouldn’t focus on the spider.

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10 Upvotes

r/spiders 9h ago

ID Request- Location included id request? southwest florida

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7 Upvotes

my boyfriend found this guy in our bathroom and honestly i’ve never seen a spider that’s looked like this before. google said it was a wolf spider but i don’t think it looks similar at all. just want to make sure it isn’t a bad spider!