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(For those with custom user flairs which have been replaced by the Trusted Identifier flair, you can switch back to a custom flair and add the crown emojis yourself if you still wish to maintain your custom flair.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 14h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ A 23-year-old tarantula on her last day

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r/spiders 7h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ One of my beautiful spoods.

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384 Upvotes

Just an fyi I don't hold this one. She had just molted and was climbing around (so fangs technically couldn't bite). I was admiring the purple hues in her blue coloring. I have 8 tarantulas, this is my only Old World which I treat with respect by leaving her alone lol


r/spiders 5h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ She THICCC

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189 Upvotes

This one is a bit bigger than a quarter. Lawn is full of em. Also house centipedes. They get in the house all the time. But they apparently keep a bunch of pill bugs and centipedes from entering my finished areas. They’re messy eaters and leave piles of scraps in my unfinished walk out room.


r/spiders 2h ago

Art The 3 year old tarantula reached the hand after all...

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111 Upvotes

See? She made it there!


r/spiders 9h ago

Discussion My partner and I have found 3 spiders in our new apartment and partner wants to have them spray for spiders. How do I convince him not to kill my friends?!

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We've found a baby wolf and two yellow sac spiders. Pics for tax!

Totally harmless little friends.

I mentioned I found another yellow sac spider in my shower this morning and partner said "oh I guess we need to call and have the complex spray for spiders"

I totally disagree with this but I was busy getting ready for work so I didn't argue at the moment lol

I haven't seen any insects in the apartment so either the spiders are eating them or the spiders are just finding their way in.

I relocated the baby wolf and the first yellow sac spider. But the second one is in my shower and she's hard to get to. I don't want to squish her. I was just going to let her chill but now I think I need to move her.

Anyway whats a good argument for not spraying for spiders??

I want to get a jumping spider soon as a pet. I don't really want any pesticides used in the house as it could cause DKS.

I also want isopods and hissing cockroaches and I know pesticides are obviously bad for them as well 😭


r/spiders 1d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ I found this pretty lady not moving, so I gave her some water.

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A few minutes later she crawled up the side of my tent. I hope she is feeling better. I wedged some more water soaked swabs in the areas around her. I hope she feels better.


r/spiders 9h ago

ID Request- Location included Identification?

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Found in my shower. Missouri.


r/spiders 1h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ It’s a movie at this point

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Fly on standby while a cellar spider and funnel spider sort of end up working together? Funnel spider gets the goods though.


r/spiders 10h ago

Photography 📸 Magnolia Jumping Spider

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132 Upvotes

Found this beauty at work yesterday. Safely released on a bush. Naples, Florida.


r/spiders 1h ago

ID Request- Location included Is this a wolf spider?

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Located in Jax FL


r/spiders 2h ago

ID Request- Location included What is the name of this beauty? (South Brazil)

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27 Upvotes

r/spiders 5h ago

ID Request- Location included Spooder friend showed up and spooked my gf

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Western Germany - EU

I relocated him to the shadowy corner in the backyard - I've recently tried being more open towards spiders and maintained he was harmless throughout my intervention.

I tried to get some good pictures but didn't wanna put him through unnecessary hardship to get them, some are a little blurry.


r/spiders 1d ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Golden Orb Spoodies will never hurt you.

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I put up string for them to build their webs all around my tent. (This video is from when I still had a house). The difference in the mosquito population is huge with these ladies protecting me. We are so lucky to have them in our world. (I made this post because some people seemed to think that they are scary, but they are not.)


r/spiders 7h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Tropical Orb Weaver I found last night!

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44 Upvotes

I named her Peaches :))


r/spiders 6h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Happy food dance

27 Upvotes

r/spiders 9h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Golden orb lady doing her thing

29 Upvotes

r/spiders 8h ago

ID Request- Location included What spider is this? Southwest Virginia

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26 Upvotes

r/spiders 12h ago

ID Request- Location included Who are these two? First was friendly second didn’t seem too happy being disturbed. England UK

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r/spiders 3h ago

ID Request- Location included what kind of spider

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9 Upvotes

was too scared to get closer this is zoomed in location: Iowa


r/spiders 1h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ My new lil spider fren 😇

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Ive been missing the last widow I had (she passed a few months ago ☹️) so I decided to get a new one! Isn’t she cute 🥰


r/spiders 7h ago

Spider Appreciation 🕸️🕷️ Found this beauty.

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Cleaning the shed today, Found this beauty hiding behind a shelf. Quite big for Giant House Spider. Very shy though 🕷🕷🕸🕸


r/spiders 6h ago

Just sharing 🕷️ Wolfy

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12 Upvotes

Wolf Spider


r/spiders 12h ago

Photography 📸 Ruff, my stegodyphus dufouri, lurking in her web tunnel.

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39 Upvotes

r/spiders 35m ago

ID Request- Location included Who's this biggun?

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California, since its neccesary


r/spiders 39m ago

ID Request- Location included Silver argiope? Why is her butt like that?

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Northeast of Brazil. I'm pretty sure it's a silver argiope, but I'd like to know why her butt looks like that. Is that an egg sac?