Male Rabid Wolf Spider
Male Dotted Wolf Spider ***

🤎Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man no time to talk🤎

Absolute u n i t

My dad said she’s an orb weaver

Female Spotted Orb Weaver

🕸️ Sorry I'm not home right now
I'm walking into spiderwebs
So leave a message and I'll call you back 🕸️

A bunch of kids tortured, injured and killed my pet spider, Timmy. :(

Hi! My husband found this guy (or gal) in our house earlier today. We live in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina (USA) but neither of us have ever seen this kind of spider before.

I think this is the biggest spider I have ever seen
Correct me if I’m mistaken but I think it is a Mccook’s split wolf spider. They are very common in my area but I have never seen one this big!

On holiday in Cape Verde, I was lucky to see one of my favourite spiders in real life for the first time!

Very small, like roughly ½". Found near kitchen sink. Very calm & shy. Tried to hide / make itself small when I first captured it. Shiny black with orange accents.

Only caught to try to identify then I released him, he’s so small 😭

I've had this guy in a tube of isopropyl alcohol for a while now, he keeps me company while I do school work.
I would love to know what he is, I looked up his features and found similar spiders online but I am not certain.
Please help me out !
I assume he's a pretty common spider, my apartment gets very warm when i'm out and I was gone for a month or so and came back to him. I'm not sure if a warm environment would help with an ID but i thought it might be useful!

Psychologically, I love spiders and deeply respect them (ex: whenever I found a spider in my childhood home, I'd be too scared to bring it outside, but I'd beg my dad to not kill it). But, when spiders get close to me or touch me, I go into fight or flight, and I'll sometimes even start crying from fear.

I just want to not be afraid of them anymore, so hopefully some fun spider facts will help :D (they can be facts to convince me that my phobia is unwarranted, or just general fun spider facts)

Also, I fucking love tarantulas. I don't know what it is, but I'm not scared of them. I'm also not afraid of insects. I pick up insects all the time, and am honestly struggling to figure out why I'm scared of what's basically an insect with a few more eyes and an extra pair of legs.

It was sad to discover that she would soon complete his life. She was attacked by wasps a few times while staying on the web and jumped off for her life. It doesn't stay on its web anymore, but it's waiting between a brick on the edge of the web. If the web catches something, she gets out of there and checks. I think she's very smart.

How does one identify a spider's gender?

(dead) found in La Araucania, Chile