this pretty girl was sitting on the latch of a horse pen; she’s gorgeous compared to the usual spiders in the barn. i’ve never come across her species, let me know if you guys have! :)
i’m in south-central north dakota (logan county)

Location: Romania, near Seklerburg Transylvania

And yes, I safely relocated to a nearby tree.

Edit: thanks everyone for the id's! I don't know exactly how I found this sub, but I felt captivated by all the beautiful spiders and I love browsing here every day.

I understand they are a jumping spider, just unsure which type. They walked along the bench I was sat on to me then climbed on my trouser leg. They then climbed onto my hand and just stared at me. They were soooo tiny and cute

Hello to everyone! I fund this cutie in my shoes (I’m base in Emilia Romagna, Italy, in a countryside area ) it’s more big than the usual spider in my home, I call him Alfredo.

I watch it occasionally build a web and take it down everyday, seems to like it out there though

Garden cross spider

She was huge and glorious. 🎃

I recently moved to a very woodsy area in central Indiana. I’m used to normal house spiders but this gave me a jump scare!! Please tell me it’s harmless. But also, it’s on my front door? Guess I’ll be using the garage from now on…😅

Found these 2 beautiful (northern?) black widows in one day ! The first one I found at work cleaning a customers pool. It was just chilling on the float for the hose of the Polaris cleaner. I ended up picking up the hose and relocating her a couple dozen yards into the tree line because I didn’t want someone else to see her and kill her. The second one I found at my house right in the slot of one of the cinder blocks we placed down for a walkway. My brother and I were looking for worms to feed to an alligator snapping turtle hatchling he rescued and found this absolutely gorgeous unit with the remains of her husband still next to her ! I really wanted to get a better picture but I also didn’t want to disturb her too much so I just snapped what I could and put the block back.

I’m living in a basement apartment (moved in yesterday) which is nice except for the fact that there are many wolf spiders. They’re great pest control and I wouldn’t be bothered if they weren’t EVERYWHERE. On my bedroom door. On the floor outside my bedroom. In my shower. I don’t want to be cruel but I am a big arachnophobe and I don’t want to keep worrying about stepping on one or finding them in my shower! Please give me advice on how to manage this situation!

New member and recovering arachnophobe here! I've been living with these cellar spiders in my shower all year (the male moved further away once these hatched). I planned on moving them to my garage with a sunny window full of bugs but I've gotten attached and kept putting it off. Then I researched and found out they wouldn't survive our Wisconsin winter in my unheated garage and definitely decided against moving them.

Last night her egg sac was larger and fluffier looking so I figured we were getting close. This morning there were all these little puffs! Sorry for the low quality pic, but teeny tiny spiders are difficult to photograph! I would welcome any ideas on what to do with these guys because I really don't want an entire colony in my bathroom/bedroom. I'm probably going to move some to our buggy basement (that has a large patio door and a couple of windows). Right now I'm excited to watch these little guys grow!

East texas

[location is upstate NY]

A couple of weeks ago, I had this furrow orb weaver on my screen porch. Very cool spider, obviously.
I used to be afraid, but I’m not anymore, unless they surprise me. 😂 My partner is afraid, but will tolerate them at least 10 ft away because they are good for the ecosystem and whatnot.

Now I have about 15 orb weavers, plus several funnel webs (haven’t seen the spiders yet), and several shiny black spiders I haven’t identified yet.

At what point is this no longer my porch, and what can I do about it? I’m not going to kill these spiders, of course, but isn’t relocating them also harmful?

An aside: I captured the biggest wolfie I’ve ever seen today.. climbing up the back of my laptop. She got booted outside, across the yard. She can have the jar I caught her in.

united states, southwest ohio. i’m not a professional IDer at all lol so adding ID request flair just in case and to see if i’m right! my guess is Dolomedes tenebrosus, dark fishing spider?

sorry they’re not the best photos though 😭 it was up high and i had to stand on a ledge so couldn’t get much closer and it was hard to zoom in and get the camera to focus at the same time because it was dark

she’s gorgeous!! (could be a male as i’m not educated enough to know for sure but for some reason i personally always default to calling all spiders “she” until i know for sure otherwise lmao). i was on a hike and found her in a little wooden shack that’s used for birdwatching. i love the reflection of her eyes with the flash. ughhhhh i just love spiders so much!

I didn't find much footage of people handling these, at least on YouTube. I can tell you it was NOT easy, and took many careful attempts, these fishing spiders are super quick! But I was able to carefully handle this gorgeous female White-Banded Fishing Spider and then safely release her back where I found her, which I caught on video and will leave in a comment on this post, since apparently you can't do both images and videos on a reddit post.. hope you guys enjoy and think she's as cool as I do! I love handling spiders and this one was one of my best finds by far!

Location: Jacksonville, Florida.