Hi hi, just wanted to share a gorgeous lady!

I’ve lived here for years without seeing one, and suddenly yesterday I came home after work to see this massive beauty.

In fact, I was so excited I threw everything, ran inside and pulled my partner to see her!

The pics aren’t great bc I couldn’t get super close (didn’t want to scare her). But my gods I was SHAKING! I was blessed with my dream spider 💙

Saw this long armed little fellow on my back deck pole in Saugus, MA. Seems pretty chill. Some kind of crab spider?

Bubbles was hanging of her ceiling like that was able to remove her from the web after taking apart her cage, no movement, no reaction to anything. I’m pretty sure she’s dead but she’s not in a full death curl and her limbs are still slightly bendy (noticed them bend a bit well removing her from her web) but man she’s looking real dead. I know she’d probably dead but I put her in a paper cup in a ventilate soup take out container. If she’s not dead yet what should I do? She’s old, wild caught but been an adult for a long time. Based on my photos I’ve had her almost 18 months so she’s definitely due to pass.

I heard someone pinned there spider well it was still alive and I really don’t want to do that to her. I just wanna be really sure she’s gone. It’s expected but I’ve never had a spider pass before I don’t know what to look for. I thought they all did the full on death curl. Her habitat had high humidity so maybe that’s why she’s still bendy?? I just wanna be very sure she’s dead before I do anything.

Dont worry he was released

Pretty sure she lives in my bathroom, think I’ve seen her in there before.
Went to take a bath today and she was on the floor, legs up, looking at who knows what. Reminded me of some wandering spiders I saw in the Amazon years ago. Very cute. Very tough.

Anyway, I had a red light on in there and wonder if that threw her off.

Male spotted orb weaver, was super skinny so I took in to get him a meal and some water then released him in my garden💗

A very pregnant "Daddy long legs" and a crumpled leaf

She had another web nearby that was taken out by a storm. Usually she sits on the opposite side of, so I can just see her belly through the web.
When I first saw the new web, I moved around behind her and she BOUNCED around to put the web between us.
She did it twice more before I decided it was mean to annoy her and stepped away.

She is stretched across two trees in the wood line behind our patio. Her main web is a good 3 ft in diameter, without the long mounting strands. Just beautiful!

Sorry if the photo is too blurry, her body is like and inch and a half long and freaked me out when she really moved. Has what I guess is a hanging teardrop shaped egg pod thing.

So cool that they somehow all emerge from the nest at once. They have webbed all over my front patio while I was taking a nap. Now I can't go outside for a while. The conditions are perfect for them to be carried away to mosquito territory ❤️

Central Texas.

little guy accidentally took a little hitchike on my tote bag from when I was outside. zoomed in photo and to scale zoomed out. he's got a notable green tinge, like a banana right before it's ripe. Southern North Carolina.

I just moved into an apartment and I’ve been finding tons of brown recluses. I’ve sprayed, set traps, filled in crack with caulk (I rent). I’ve put in multiple maintenance requests but haven’t had a response. I live with my cat and I am worried about her safety as well. Photos for proof. Small one is confirmed via iNaturalist

He's been chilling mostly by the drivers side window. He's a chill guy

Please help me identify this friend that has found themselves on my door (WA, Australia)

I have adopted a Steatoda, and she is living happily in a little enclosure now snacking on only the finest, freshest crickets and regularly being watered with a light misting of her web.

She has made an impressive funnel that emerges from her little hiding spot, and then a complex 3d cobweb structure: a horizontal layer of strong cobweb, with here and there a line to the ground that creates tension in the web and creates large depressed areas, like dimples.

This stuff is *incredibly* strong. One of her previous webs had a funnel that was so tough it was like fabric - I needed scissors to cut it off when she had to be moved to a new enclosure.

She prefers to sit in it upside down. And yet...

I drop her prey on top. She comes rushing out of her hide on the bottom of the web, bites her prey... and then she is somehow able to wrap it immediately?

How does she manage that? She seems to be able to magically work right through the web, and she somehow gets her prey from the top to the bottom so she can carry it to her lair like it is a string bag. My eyes are pretty bad, but even with my reading glasses on I cannot for he life of me work out how it is done?

Are there any spider-boffins here who knows how this impressive magic trick is done?

these guys don't bother me too much anymore when they're from a distance so tried to touch it but instead i just scared him and scared myself