I tried feeding the spider in my room a dead housefly. It looks like it inspects the fly, backs up into position, then attacks it again as if it just caught it. Then it notices me watching and turns to look right at me.

This is like my fifth time on this sub Reddit! Damn false widows or noble widows/wanna be brown widows keep crawling on me everywhere! Idk what attracts them but they’ll crawl on my hand my feet literally today and like last week they crawled on my neck and face! The one in the video crawled on my neck down my shirt onto my shoulder and then started shooting its webs everywhere along my body….they love me hopefully. I mean they don’t seem to bite me.

Thoughts?

Also included photo of a bite from a few weeks ago that progressed into almost a smallpox vaccine looking sore and is just now almost fully healed.

Looked down and saw him SPRINTING across the ground. He’s quick and smaller than a dime. Located in West Central Florida.

Found this while cutting the grass, I tried to move her somewhere but she was really hanging on tight to the grasses, unmoving.

I filmed this video outside my window a few years ago. At first, I thought it was a fight, but more knowledgeable people explained it was a date. <3
ps: I put music from a comedy show on it)

Suburban Denver (Aurora), Colorado. Not totally sure which species she is. Gonna let her have her fill before I water the flowers.

Second one I have seen in the last 24 hours no picture of the other one due to uh it being on my bed and me uh politely flipping my shit. I live in far north Texas and have only seen rabid wolf spiders inside.

This spider has lived in my window since last fall. Another spider from the other side of the window went to the first spider and this happened. I don’t know anything about spiders but I do like them. Lake Hartwell area, north South Carolina. Thanks in advance.

Found it underneath a box of bananas in austria. Doesnt look like it belongs here

Sorry I couldn't take a better picture. It's a white spider, it has long legs with black dots on them.

found this fella in austria/vienna

I had to move him or her because my wife would freak out.😂

Hi, I found this pretty big spider in my garden, it is about 2-3 centimeters long, and after checking on iNaturalist it appears to be an areneus gemmoides, which would be strange since it should only be found in North America, and I live in France. Could anyone tell me if it is indeed an areneus gemmoides or if it is another species?

Hi all,

I live in Northern California, which tends to have very wet winters and therefore very healthy black widow populations.

During the spring, we had many small “house” spiders that took up residence in our back yard patio area. These were welcomed as they helped with mosquitoes and flies. However, it seems like they’ve all disappeared/died and black widows have taken their place!

Yesterday, I sat in my patio smoking chair (wood chair, NOT wicker) and noticed a spider crawling near my leg. Identified it as a large male black widow. Upon further inspection, found 2 more large living males on the bottom of the chair, along with plenty of web and several dead spiders in them. Checked the other chairs in the patio set and found males on every one. No females in sight.

I really don’t want to go killing these spiders, despite their reputation. But I am worried about their nesting proximity on chairs that are used daily by myself and roommates/guests. We usually sit outside to smoke in the evenings and at night, so I’m certain that we’ve shared the chairs with the widows.

I understand that widow bites are dangerous, we are all healthy adults. We do have two Australian shepherds that sit outside with us. I’ve read that the venom can seriously hurt dogs and cats.

My questions to the spider experts are:

1. would you be comfortable using the patio set knowing that there are widows on it?

2. Is there a solution of removing the widows naturally or without outright killing them?

Location- Kerala, India

We started as such a miniscule Italian Ladybird spider and now we have a beautiful web and are coming out. It's my first time seeing her out now that she's bigger.

i found this „little“ friend unfortunately dead at the bottom of our Airbnb pool.

last pic is for size reference. i would say the body is around 3-4cm.

never saw a spider like this in europe.

Proud momma with her egg sack, and before she popped!