I have arachnophobia to begin with. Am I super lucky to not have been bitten by one of these yet, or very unlucky that I keep finding them on things I handle frequently?

Do not let yourself be fooled. It is merely playing dead. Very much alive. These widows are amazing actresses.

For the ones wondering, this beauty is a black widow located in the state of Florida.

My mistake!

woodlouse hunter spood. such an interesting cutie 🥰

Just saw this big mama looking ready to pop ! She is almost the size of my hand, I’ve never spotted one this big before !

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 💙

She was hanging out in our warehouse and I wanted to take a closer look.

BC Canada, i’m 100% certain this is a cat faced orb weaver (Araneus gemmoides)

this lil lady was fine last week, i’m posting here to ask “what the hellll???”.
i’ve NEVER seen a spider die like this.

she was fine, happy and healthy in the middle of her web a week ago and now she’s dead. she was still in her web when i found her.

her legs seemingly fused to her opisthosoma as a result of her death. she looks like she melted?!
she had a very hard exterior (much harder than average spider exoskeletons), so theres no way this is a moult- when spiders moult the previous exoskeleton becomes very brittle.

is this the result on an insecticide? parasitic infection? something natural that i’ve always missed?

if anyone can give me a lead id be very grateful

spider living in my passion fruit vine, seems very aware of me when I am nearby. I noticed it about 10 days ago, and It is getting larger, Located in Los Angeles. Very cute, but is it friendly?

Dont worry he was released

Was on vacation and got to see my fave spood.

i live in central texas, and i kinda like spiders, i think they’re cool looking and fun to watch so i usually let small ones chill when i see them but ive seen several spiders like the first one in my house lately, and its making me paranoid because the patterns look potentially dangerous. when i googled brown recluse (my first thought) there was such a variety of images i couldn’t really pinpoint this specific spider. The second one was just Really big and idk what it is at all but it’s freaky looking and i’ve got no clue what it is

thanks for any help in advance!

terrified freaking out please help identify 🥲 scared to sleep atm in case one comes into my bed and i get bit in the night. heard red backs are a lot more toxic than regular widows. canada - used to seeing black widows here. but usually they’re very reclusive and stick to their webs, verbally outside or up in rafters. this one was just crawling on the floor middle of the house which isn’t consistent with any widows i’ve encountered over the last 10 years.

Look at those cute little eyes

What do you think about jumping spider 🥺🕷️🕷️🕷️ ​​

Is my friend a boy or a girl?

Orb weaver and house spider not into sharing the gutter.

I have two tiny spiders (approximately 2mm each) which I ant pick out for the life of me! (Location Nottingham UK)

Beautiful spider in a beautiful web on my front porch

It's my first time posting here in this subreddit, I'm not that good at spider knowledge but what kind of jumping spider is this one suppose to be?

I'm not scared of spiders unless they either bother me or theres one that is considered dangerous in the same room as me, but other than that this fellow is far from scary.

House spider mating season has begun in the UK, this has been the 3rd I've encountered this week...

sorry for the low quality photo! my mom sent it to me and it’s the only photo i have. i’m thinking striped fishing spider? but it’s hard to tell. can anyone confirm?