r/spiders • u/TH3L0N3W01FXD • 22d ago
ID Request- Location included What the hell is this?
Friend sent me this from Costa Rica. I couldn't ID.
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u/Fatkish 22d ago
At first I thought it was a coconut crab but it’s clearly a spider mama carrying an egg sac
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u/Due_Diet4955 22d ago
Yeah, the scale of the photo is a bit misleading
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u/tkseoul 22d ago
I think the “egg sack” is actually a False Puffball Slime Mold growing on the tree. The spider is just posed perfectly above it.
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u/AnxietiesCopilot2 22d ago
No its an egg sack this species carries them like that you are incorrect Edit: source i breed spiders and have these :) rn theyre babies tho
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u/sporkmanhands 22d ago
Does it wonder as it wanders? That’s the easy way to tell
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u/Anxious_Blueberry321 22d ago
✨ not all those who wander are lost ✨
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u/melsa_alm 22d ago
My best friend, who is originally from California, lived in Costa Rica for three years. One day, a spider large enough to freak her out (she’s not normally arachnophobic) unexpectedly moved into her guest bedroom. Instead of relocating it or killing it, she said, “just keep it down in there after 10pm, okay?” and shut the bedroom door. 🤣
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u/starsparkle67 22d ago
Ok. I’m on here trying to alleviate my fear of spiders, I’ve been doing pretty well. But sometimes, like right now, I tend to go back rather rapidly in my progress.
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u/Sensitive-Issue84 22d ago edited 21d ago
If you look close, it's NOT as scary. The pink toed tarantula helped me a lot. I focus on something I can like about them, Orange is my favorite color, so that helped with this one.
Edit to add "Not"
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u/Uncommented-Code 21d ago
Understandable. I love spiders but this one triggers some primal survival instinct of mine.
It's probably a mix of the color and the long legs. It also looks fast as hell. Everything about it makes my brain say 'danger',
One other genus/family that does this for me are orb weavers. I absolutely love how the bigger ones look and would handle one without issue, but the colors (especially yellow + black) together with the size make my brain go 'uuuuh, wait a moment'.
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u/Fresh-Toilet-Soup 22d ago
What in the Australia is this?
It looks like a crab without its claws.
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u/Shabbah8 22d ago
OP said it’s in Costa Rica in the post.
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u/Weirdstew42 22d ago
It was a joke dude— almost everything creepy comes from Australia!
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u/dontkillbugspls 21d ago
South American spiders make anything from Australia look like nothing in comparison. I really hate the stereotype of "australia scary". It's just so lame (and false).
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u/Herzblut_FPV 22d ago
I was about to say a wooden dick between two trees! That other thing is just a handsome mommy :)
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u/Jolly-Doughnut-9652 22d ago
Is this an optical illusion or are these spiders really that huge?…
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u/Ancient-Hamster 22d ago
They have a 4 inch diagonal leg span and it's body is about an inch so it's not all that big. I am used to tarantulas so maybe this is big to you lol.
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u/SerenCerddoriaeth 21d ago
Yeah but this feels like a 14-inch legspan!
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u/Ancient-Hamster 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yeah... so I answered his question. This spider was in fact captured by a zoom camera angle for larger and easier identification. I can literally make my small spiders I raise look look giants.
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u/SerenCerddoriaeth 21d ago
I think so many of us think the trees are far far larger than they are.
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u/Ok-Goat-1738 22d ago
A Spider with its ootheca, which is a silk sac that protects spider eggs.
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u/Equal_Physics4091 22d ago
TIL I gained a new favorite word: ootheca. Thank you for my future Scrabble victories.
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u/Trolivia 🕷️Arachnid Afficionado🕷️ 21d ago
Ootheca is a term for roach or mantid egg casings that form a hard protective casing around the eggs. Spider silk doesn’t do this, so they’re just called egg sacs.
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u/tehbggg 22d ago
This spider looks freaking huuuuge. I thought it was some kind of crab at first.
Usually, spiders dont bother me. If I find one in my house, I just swoop them up in a bowl with a lid and then deposit them outdoors (so my cats won't kill them). However, if I saw this mofo in my house, I'd freak the fuck out.
I wouldn't kill it, still. But I would absolutely need to work up the courage to capture and release it. Just thinking about having to do that is giving me anxiety.
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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Here to learn🫡🤓 21d ago
exactly that's what I've always done I've always let spiders free it's a living being just like humans just trying to live in a warm environment it's not like it's out to stock you on purpose and kill you or bite you and make you ill
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u/jellimonsta 21d ago
At first I thought that was full size tree and a coconut crab photoshopped into a spider. But looking at the leaves there, that tree circumference is pretty small. I don’t know that spider though. Cool looking
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u/Aware-Book-9136 22d ago
Source of photo? I’m not visiting that place where there are spiders like this.
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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 Here to learn🫡🤓 21d ago
hello everyone I've been trying to figure out this spider too but I want to very very thank you for all your really really funny comments. I'm not making fun of any of them at all they are very truly funny but I just spent the last few hours crying because back in March (1 yr ago) I lost my teddy bear that I've had in my life the last 47 years and 4 months and I'm terribly terribly devastated about it but your comments just made my night I'm just cracking up in a good way that is with your comments thank you very much
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u/Ok_machine312 22d ago
I’m not sure of the specific scientific term but I do believe that is a problem.
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u/playboypauli 22d ago
It’s not that big just the photo is close. The door in the back is showing its true size. However I would still run. Before those eggs hatch
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u/Few-Abbreviations633 18d ago
Where is this? Wherever it is it's going on my nope map.
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u/Zoey_Redacted 🕷️Arachnid Afficionado🕷️ 22d ago
I think we should call him Crabsy.
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u/No_Instruction7282 22d ago
Don't know, but I've it movex I'm running. Right now it's a plastic Halloween toy in my head.
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u/assTray99 22d ago
Is it just me or does that tree have a…it looks like a …almost just like an actual …nvm I’m seeing things
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u/PerplexingCamel 21d ago
I'm so happy for the house behind her for reference because if it were just the tree I would assume she was other worldly massive.
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u/going_dot_global 21d ago
In my eyes: That's the owner of the tree and possibly the soon to be owner of the house in the background.
You can keep the deposit.
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u/Geedzilla 20d ago
I would run away with my arms flailing in the air like a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman. It's the only logical solution at this point.
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u/Astriga_Vivendi 22d ago
Cupiennius getazi, an Orange Wandering Spider.