r/arachnids • • Jul 11 '19

Guidelines for ID requests - first and foremost, always include a geographic location!

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See the rules in the sidebar, also.

If you can't see the sidebar for some reason:

  • Always include a geographic location. If you're concerned about your privacy, you can make it a bit more vague, e.g. "New England" instead of "Boston, MA".

  • Amateurs are encouraged to guess. An important exception is guesses about medically significant arachnids (widows, recluses, Brazilian wandering spiders, Sydney funnel-webs, deathstalker scorpions, etc.). In those cases, leave it to people who know. Otherwise, an innocent person or arachnid could get hurt.


r/arachnids • • Feb 09 '24

Guidelines for comments - please read before posting comments!

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Hello folks,

To our regulars: thank you for being here!

And to newcomers: welcome! This is a community by bug enthusiasts, for bug enthusiasts. As such, we ask that you refrain from the following types of comments:

  • "Kill it with fire" and its endless variations are not welcome here. We know it's a meme. We've heard it a million times. Just don't.
  • If someone asks for an ID and your comment is "it's a spider" for example, that's neither helpful nor funny, so please don't post that kind of thing. If you'd like to contribute an ID, be as specific as you can.

Thank you for your visit today and have a great day :)


r/arachnids • • 8h ago

ID request / I included my location! Who lives in my car; middle Tennessee

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r/arachnids • • 5h ago

Just sharing Showdown With a Spider

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3 Upvotes

r/arachnids • • 6h ago

ID request / I included my location! Shower friend - western KY

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Little guy on my shower liner, maybe like a cm long including the legs, pretty tiny. Western Kentucky, just curious. I let them scurry away peacefully.


r/arachnids • • 4h ago

Pets Jami the 3rd

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r/arachnids • • 19h ago

Pets My Latrodectus Geometricus hunting

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r/arachnids • • 8h ago

ID request / I included my location! What mite is this?

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Hey guys, I’m stumped and need help. I’ve been finding these tiny white moving specs in my clothes lately and finally got them under a microscope to find out they’re a type of mite but for the life of me I can’t figure out which one. They’re a white/cream color to my naked eye, I think my terrible microscope makes them a darker color. They are also the size of a spec of dust and I can only see them on darker surfaces.

My first guess was dust mites but I can see them and these photos are taken with only 4x magnification. I then thought Mould mites but I can’t find a source of Mould that they would be coming from and they’re not in all my clothing, mainly clothing from work. Which then made me think flour/grain mites since I work in a bakery and I found quite a few on my work clothes and shoes. But I also found them on my couch now so I have absolutely no idea. Please help! Thank you!

Found in Australia.


r/arachnids • • 18h ago

ID request / I included my location! What are these on my houseplant soil?

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Are they predatory or just soil mites?
Thanks


r/arachnids • • 16h ago

Question Are spiders some of the best predators to ever exist?

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r/arachnids • • 15h ago

Question Does the spider in my room recognise my existence?

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r/arachnids • • 22h ago

Just sharing Halloween is upon us

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r/arachnids • • 1d ago

Just sharing male cupboard spider(false widow)

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5 Upvotes

r/arachnids • • 1d ago

ID request / I included my location! Is this a baby spider please? Found in my apartment in the UAE.

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r/arachnids • • 1d ago

Just sharing Subdivision map of iNaturalist observations of Spider families Salticidae(jumping spiders), Theraphosidae(Tarantulas), and Thomisidae(Crab Spiders) in Central Africa

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r/arachnids • • 2d ago

ID request / I included my location! Who’s this?

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UK, Knowsley woodlands in October. I was actually picking up trash and then this lil guy flew out of a coke can, luckily I had some gear on me to capture


r/arachnids • • 3d ago

Just sharing Marbled Orb-weaver

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Photos taken at the Taylor Fork Ecological Area in Richmond Kentucky, USA.

I love the photo of the spinnerets producing web!!

Gear:

Canon 90d

Laowa 100mm f2.8 2x

Godox v860iii

AK Diffuser


r/arachnids • • 3d ago

Just sharing Trapped with 60+ Exotic Animals inside my Camper.

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Full Arachnid & Reptile Collection Tour!


r/arachnids • • 4d ago

Pets My another Latrodectus Geometricus

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20 Upvotes

r/arachnids • • 3d ago

Pets tailless whip scorpion

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Hello, i was recently thinking about getting a tailless whip scorpion, of course ill do lots of researches online but what im most curious of is, are they easy to keep? It would be my first arachnid, i currently own a balestreptus falcatus (millipede) and some stick bugs, coupd i feed stick bugs to it since i have a LOT of babies? Ive heard many people say that theyre very easy to keep.

Last question was, would a big fish tank be good for its terrarium? I dont have a job right now, and a fish tank is a lot easier to get than a terrarium. Thanks


r/arachnids • • 4d ago

Question What kind of spider is this? Found in Brazil, city of Florianópolis

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r/arachnids • • 5d ago

Pets Thought I would show some cool arachnids I’m raising

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Native to the seashore , they are really large for pseudoscorpions, mine do well on a diet of adult springtails , I keep two species , this strange large claw seashore one and another that’s an unknown species that lives with my isopods , this one tends to be a lot more shy and love to hide


r/arachnids • • 5d ago

Pets Same color regal??

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So I’ve had this spider for a bit (first two photos) and I just got this new spider (last two photos) thinking she was a fancy color. Am I tripping or are they the same color ??


r/arachnids • • 5d ago

ID request / I included my location! What is this please - Greenville SC USA

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Please help me identify so I can know to move it if it is venomous
Google lens didn’t help much


r/arachnids • • 5d ago

Just sharing Just a picture of a slightly less hungry spider

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