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(For those with custom user flairs which have been replaced by the Trusted Identifier flair, you can switch back to a custom flair and add the crown emojis yourself if you still wish to maintain your custom flair.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 • • 5h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found in Upstate South Carolina

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258 Upvotes

No clue what she is, but I thought the coloring was worth a share. My phone camera isn't that great, but you get the idea.

Photographed around 1PM on Saturday, October 17.


r/spiders • • 4h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found this Beautiful Garden spider today

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162 Upvotes

She didn’t have a web and it’s getting pretty cold here, I’m gonna take her home and see if she’ll lay eggs since she looks gravid. Hopefully I can save her spiderlings.


r/spiders • • 17h ago

Discussion Hims good.

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513 Upvotes

Just out looking for some strange…👍🏻


r/spiders • • 2h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found this one crawling around a pallet

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32 Upvotes

Had a shipment delivered to my house and this guy crawled around.


r/spiders • • 19h ago

Discussion Hims ok?

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688 Upvotes

I was scooting this lil guy along so my dog wouldn’t eat him. He didn’t look too healthy, so I was letting him take his time, but I noticed he was walking a bit weird so I started to film..then this happened!
I see these guys quite often on my property, almost daily during this time of year, but I’ve never seen one shut down like this. What is going on here??


r/spiders • • 4h ago

Photography 📸 We call him goliath

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38 Upvotes

r/spiders • • 3h ago

Discussion Is it weird to mourn the loss of a spidey roommate?

24 Upvotes

Hi everyone, just wanted to discuss this topic. A day or two ago my friendly resident bathroom spider unfortunately passed away. Unfortunately, I wont ever know what caused it, but it is still sad nonetheless, and I am hoping it was just old age.

Anyway, does anyone else mourn the losses of their spidey friends? I love all living beings and it hurts to see them pass, and I wonder if it extends to spiders with anyone else?


r/spiders • • 14h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ "Person " detected! Lolz

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68 Upvotes

r/spiders • • 2h ago

Photography 📸 This lady hungout on my fence for a solid week and was so fun to watch! But today, she is gone. 🫤

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7 Upvotes

r/spiders • • 22h ago

Art Banana Spider Nails 🍌🇨🇴

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293 Upvotes

I have a vacation coming up to Colombia, hoping the locals will see my nails and let me to one of these guys 😂👌


r/spiders • • 4h ago

ID Request- Location included (UK) I originally wanted to share this spider because I thought how badass it looked, then I zoomed in and saw the skull on it's bum

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11 Upvotes

r/spiders • • 2h ago

ID Request- Location included What is this

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7 Upvotes

I live in south eastern Wisconsin and saw this velvety red spider. It’s about the size of a half dollar.


r/spiders • • 1d ago

ID Request- Location included WTAF…

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531 Upvotes

Location: Portland, OR.

I have NEVER seen a spider this big in this area. Please help me identify. The photos don’t do a great job of showing the “horns” on its abdomen.


r/spiders • • 1h ago

Photography 📸 A zebra jumping spider (Salticus sp.) hunting on a plant pot

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These tiny guys seem to have so much personality. It's always fun to observe and photograph them :)

Most likely Salticus scenicus, but there's a slim chance that it is S. cingulatus.

~3.5x magnification, f/8, full frame, single shot. Any pointers on the photography are very welcome!


r/spiders • • 8h ago

Photography 📸 °OO°

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19 Upvotes

Which crop do you prefer?


r/spiders • • 12h ago

Photography 📸 Beautiful European garden spider (Araneus diadematus)

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37 Upvotes

To me, the pattern on its abdomen is a little work of art: cream-white spots on an orange-brown background. And the macro shot reveals so much more: the fine hairs, the banded legs, even the eyes.

📷 Canon EOS R5 Mark II · RF 100mm F2.8 MACRO
⚙️ 1/250 s · f/9 · ISO 1000 · single shot, no focus stacking
🤚 Handheld, no flash


r/spiders • • 5h ago

ID Request- Location included What the flip is that and does it bite

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8 Upvotes

Hello Spider community, I’m in the South East of England and I found this frankly scary ass spider in my bathroom and would love to know what it us and if I should eliminate


r/spiders • • 3h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Spider molting outside my window

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7 Upvotes

Looks just like the one I shared in my previous post. Someone said "Araneus diadematus, an orb-weaver." Which definitely seems right!


r/spiders • • 1d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Giant female wolf spider I found behind my house

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1.0k Upvotes

r/spiders • • 2h ago

ID Request- Location included Found this guy in the UK. Does anyone know what it is?

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5 Upvotes

r/spiders • • 1h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Fishing spider next to my face serum, and nursery web spider in my houseplant 🌝

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So many spoods in my house I gotta start charging them rent


r/spiders • • 3h ago

Discussion What is this? California

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6 Upvotes

Just found this guy trying to get in my apartment. Had a red/orange belly


r/spiders • • 8h ago

ID Request- Location included Who’s this lil dude?

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9 Upvotes

Located in VA


r/spiders • • 5h ago

ID Request- Location included Who have we here :))?

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6 Upvotes

📍Tirol, Austria :))

My spider friends, i have never seen this orbweaver. Looks like araneus diadematus but grey:OOO

thank yall and have a good weekend all of yall owo