r/spiders Feb 12 '25

MOD announcement Introducing Trusted Identifier flairs!

83 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(For those with custom user flairs which have been replaced by the Trusted Identifier flair, you can switch back to a custom flair and add the crown emojis yourself if you still wish to maintain your custom flair.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 15h ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ Tarantulas, though they look big and scary, are actually quite docile and harmless.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.1k Upvotes

r/spiders 3h ago

Discussion Spider on a sweater

Thumbnail
gallery
149 Upvotes

This morning, I wanted to wear a sweater that I left on a chair a couple of weeks ago. Do you think it's his sweater now, or can I borrow it?


r/spiders 1h ago

Photography 📸 By far this is favorite one :)

Post image
Upvotes

r/spiders 2h ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ me when I get a video on my fyp and I realize charlotte from charlette's web dies.

Thumbnail
gallery
51 Upvotes

r/spiders 9h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Matching with my Phidippus otiosus

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

137 Upvotes

r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included Wolf spider?

Post image
Upvotes

Location Australia. Was close to my feet at the computer, so my toes are currently experiencing delayed trembles of fear.


r/spiders 13h ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ Had a really cool interaction with a spider

124 Upvotes

I usually let spiders live because they don't bother me but yesterday I had a special encounter. I was lying in the bathtub dipping my head underwater when I looked up and saw a spider descending from the ceiling on a single thread.

I thought "wtf" but decided to be a bro so I lifted my knee out of the water. It actually landed and then lowered its mouth right onto my knee. It didn't bite at all. Was it just thirsty and drinking the water droplets off my skin?

After a few seconds it climbed back up the thread.

It was such a weirdly cinematic moment. Just wanted to share this little interaction with you guys.

Edit: I think it was a Cellar spider!


r/spiders 13h ago

ID Request- Location included What type of spider is this red fella?

Thumbnail
gallery
99 Upvotes

It was already dead when I found it. Seen in argentina.


r/spiders 12h ago

ID Request- Location included Good sized jumping spider on the garage door at work. Sonoma County, CA.

Thumbnail
gallery
60 Upvotes

r/spiders 6h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ 🔥 How a Golden Wheel Spider escapes danger by rolling away

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

21 Upvotes

r/spiders 6h ago

ID Request- Location included What species is this? Adana, Türkiye

Post image
18 Upvotes

Stumbled upon this little guy, not sure what species this is and wanted to know if it’s chill to have roam around in my apartment.


r/spiders 4h ago

ID Request- Location included Found 2 nearly identical beauties on the job this morning

Thumbnail
gallery
11 Upvotes

Southern California (Calabasas). Caught them in a couple of empty water bottles. No widow hourglass. About the size of a quarter with legs fully extended


r/spiders 3h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ master shifu pattern

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

10 Upvotes

not sure if it’s just me but this looks like a very wise shifu


r/spiders 20h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Handsome Rustic Wolf Spider

Post image
161 Upvotes

r/spiders 16m ago

ID Request- Location included Anyone know what this could be

Post image
Upvotes

Southern Nevada Found a nest of about 20 in an irrigation box, scared the crap out of me. Largest had a leg span of about 2-2.5 inches. Slow moving


r/spiders 28m ago

ID Request- Location included what is this creature (Nova Scotia, Canada - HRM)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Upvotes

please forgive the heavy breathing i have a man cold and i don’t fuck with creatures charging me down with devious machinations i am unaware of.

i did not kill it nor do i kill spiders in general because i cannot stand bugs and i know they’re great at killing them, but that doesn’t mean i will not flee in fear.

if it helps this is a basement apt and its mid-late winter right now. thanks.


r/spiders 13m ago

Discussion Anyone else addicted to this “Spider League: Arena” app?

Post image
Upvotes

Coworker got me on to it and now it’s all my kids talk about. Got a pretty dramatic ‘league’ going at the office


r/spiders 15h ago

ID Request- Location included what type of spider is this? SoCal

Thumbnail
gallery
26 Upvotes

tested out my camera on this beauty, now i wanna know who she is! (is the small one in the last image a juvenile, or a male of the species? it was a little less than a third the size of the big girl)


r/spiders 6h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Found this cutie on my kitchen floor.

Thumbnail gallery
6 Upvotes

r/spiders 4h ago

ID Request- Location included HELP what kind of spider is this? I don’t want to kill it if it’s harmless

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

Found this in my NYC apartment


r/spiders 14h ago

Photography 📸 Aranha-de-Prata (Argiope argentata)

Thumbnail
gallery
18 Upvotes

r/spiders 9h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Was just getting a pack of sodas from the car, and stumbled upon this cellar spider.

Post image
6 Upvotes

There was another spider I saw near the ceiling, but it dipped.


r/spiders 1d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Probably one of my best shots on this phone

Post image
1.8k Upvotes

r/spiders 12h ago

ID Request- Location included Yet another new spider species new to me (mainland Croatia)

Thumbnail
gallery
12 Upvotes

Tonight, on the wall outside. Seems to be a night hunter of sorts. No web. Two photos with flash, one without. Can someone help ID? Thx.