18 August, 2008:
This spider is in my garden in denver and I absolutely love it. Just
wondering what it might be and if you are familiar with it great and
if not and can find someone who is, that be good. She or he has
created a kingdom (queendom?) in my garden and I'm really enjoying
watching her/him and taking pictures. This is a supermodel in the
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29 July, 2008:
Hi Glen,
These Crab Spiders really like my carnivorous plants. The thin-looking one was on my Yellow Pitcher plant, and the other one was on my Venus' Flytrap flower stem. There is only one really good shot, but I thought you'd at least like to see them all. Feel free to use them if you want.
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22 July, 2008:
Hi Glen!
Here's our latest round of spiders: all teeny tiny little friends!
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29 June, 2008:
Hi Glen,
I had these pictures lined up to e-mail you a couple of weeks ago, but I somehow omitted them! (I think.) There is one picture of what I guess is some kind of Crab Spider on my Yellow Pitcher Plant, guarding the lid. Also, there is an underside shot of some kind of narrow-bodied Orb Weaver. Feel free to use the pictures if you want.
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9 June, 2008:
As you will note in the first picture, she was hiding on
the underside of a pansy petal!
Minneapolis, MN area
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29 February, 2007:
Hi Glen, some photos of a Crab Spider I found in a
Frangipani flower in Jakarta. Possibly a Thomisus sp. I
based my guess on
this page:
Frank, Melbourne
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30 September, 2007:
Glen, Ellen, here. I think Cathy is right, this was never
sent to you. One thing about the strange weather we have had
for several years, is the species and their habitat are
changing too. In this case the plant the spider is holed up
in has not been seen in two years, nor has the spider.
Enjoy, use it or share it as you wish. Ellen
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8 September, 2007:
Hi glen, I was just wondering if you could help me
identify a couple of spiders I found in or around my
house. Thanks in advance for any information you can
give me.
Trishia from Fenton, MissouriClick for a larger view.
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6 September, 2007:
Wanted to send you this awesome spider pic I took
yesterday. A M A Z I N G!
Laura
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30 August, 2007:
Hi,
I was trying to identify this spider when I came across your
website.
I think he's a Crab Spider, however, I haven't seen another
one quite like it.
Could you help me identify him?
Thanks!
Lisa
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11 August, 2007:
i have no clue what this is but i took pics of it the put it in
a container with a crab spider and it ate it it had babies i
dont know if it was trying to protect them or what thanks melvin
moore, ada oklahoma
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5 August 2007:
Hi Glen, found a few of these critters in my rose bush
today. Have never seen them before. Are they partial to
roses and do you know what they are called? They are
quite striking with the stripes and the
spots/dots/holes? on their backs. Can you tell me a
little about them. I am in Brandon, Manitoba.
Thanks, Karen
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5 August 2007:
I saw this little spider on a tiny petal of a tiny flower on
out table. I had my macro lens with me and even that doesn't
do justice to how little it was. It seemed to be almost
clear and I was curious if you know what this is. Thanks
Stacie
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24 July, 2007:
I think I'm getting hooked on
your site... an orb weaver?
-Chris
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27 July, 2007:
Glen,
I thought you might be able to use these on your site.
Rick Miller
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24 July, 2007:
Hi there... I took this picture
today thinking it was a moth, but
after I got it on the computer
I realized it was a spider. In
trying to find out what kind it was,
my wife found your website. After
some research and
comparing photos, we think it's a
Goldenrod Crab Spider. Is that
correct? I don't know if you are
interested or not, but here's the
best
pic (cropped) that I got. Thanks,
J-D, (New Brunswick Canada). Picture
taken July 22nd, 2007.
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22 July, 2007:
Here are some pictures of a spider
living in clematis plant in our
backyard. We think it is a crab spider,
is this common for Southern, Ontario?
Please E-Mail us or let us know as soon
as posible! Thank you!
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2 July, 2007:
Here are some great photos from Hannes in South Africa. Click
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21 June, 2007:
Hello, I found this spider in my house. I
live in Oakland, California. It was
super tiny like a tear drop, but smaller.
Can you tell me what kind of spider
this is please? Thank you Suzanne
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6 June 2007:
Dear Glen, thank you your web-page helped me in identifying
this spider
sergiu P.S. (photos were taken at the Black Sea shore in
Romania)
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30 May, 2007:
Hi, I found this spider on the leaves in my
garden this afternoon. I could not find the
species name. I am curious. Can you help me if
this won't take too much time and too much
trouble for you? Thanks, Lisa
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11 May, 2007:
First I’d like to say you have a great
website, I frequent it often. I’m sending
you a few pictures of a small little monster
I found in my home one evening. I thought it was a Wolf spider when I was
photographing it, however I was wrong. I
live in Colorado and have come across many
spiders but none like this one.I’d say this one was ½ inch long. I put him
outside after taking these shots. Enjoy! Any
clue as to its identity? Thanks Jason
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18 September, 2006:
Here are a few more spiders I've found in my yard
today. I'm loving this new camera!! Hope you can use
them on your website!
Sheila
Savannah, GA
USA
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6 August, 2006:
Hi! This Crab Spider was aggressively defending its Wild Rose. I was not
trying to shoot the spider, but it insisted. It was very possessive of
that flower. It was the flower I was trying to shoot. The Wild Rose bushes grow
along the railroad tracks next to the Fox River in Elgin, IL U.S.A.. I decided
to take a shot of this nice Wild Rose specimen, but the spider wasn't willing to
give it up. There were other weeds and wild grasses in the shot that I had to
clear away before taking the shot. As I did, the spider moved to whatever side
of the flower that I
was closest to. I swear, if it could talk, I would have heard, "Take off! Get
lost! Go find your own flower! This one's mine." Even as I took the shot, as you
can see, the spider had its dukes up,
as if ready to punch my lights out, given the chance. Yet, I knew it really had
no designs against me. If it wanted to jump on me, my hands were within an inch
of it several times, and it certainly could have. I think it just wanted me to
leave its flower alone. This shot was taken with a Kodak Z740 digital camera. I
used Paint Shop Pro to embellish it in the form of added, or, rather, duplicated
rose sprigs to cover up other areas of the background that were empty or too
dark, (or contained weeds I didn't finish removing). The spider and the rose it
is on are pretty much as they were, except I brought up the color saturation of
the rose just a bit to show off its pink features. Thank you for keeping up such
a wonderful AND INFORMATIVE web site. Have Fun! Clarence
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Spider mabey? It was eating a baby wasp or something along that line
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1 August, 2006:
Glen, My wife discovered this spider this morning, indoors, on the
chesterfield. Can you identify it for us? I have not seen anything on the web
that resembles it.
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July, 2006:
Can you tell me what this is? It’s a great pic!
Paul
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July, 2006:
Hi, my
fiance and I were taking a walk and found this on the outside of our
mailbox. We live in Auburn, WA and were curious if you could tell us what
kind of spider this is. I can not find any picture of one like it. Thanks,
Ron.
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July, 2006:
Good
morning, I found this
on my Hibiscus leaf this afternoon. It went into attack mode, raising
its front legs every time I got close to it. Is it just an albino
version of a common spider? What is it? Thank you,
Laurie Bachman , Metamora, IL
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July, 2006:
Love your
web site and thought I would send this to you. Yesterday,
I went out to pick some roses and thought I had a dead rose among these,
but there was
a bumblebee. He stayed right there until I brought it to the house.
It was on
what was left of a dead rose and his antenna was moving, so I thought
he was
living. Well, I cut off the dead rose and the bumblebee seemed to be stuck
on it. I put the
other roses in a vase and then discovered a spider. It must have gotten to
the bumblebee and
had it paralized. It was just a thin little thing and almost transparent with white
legs. It had a very small red head, I thought, but not so on the picture.
Maybe the red was a reflection of the rose or because he had taken a bite
out of the bumblebee. Can you tell me what kind of spider it is. It is
somewhere in the house because I wanted its picture and when I went to put
the camera up, it disappeared, I hope, somewhere on the roses. Now I feel
itchy just thinking about it.
Mary Ellen
Thorpe in the
mountains of western PA , 16613
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July, 2006:
Attached is a photo of an all white spider, I wonder what kind it is, is
it dangerous. I found it in Hedley BC Canada and it was amongst white
flowers on a bush. I almost did not see it.
If you dont know what it is please send it to someone who might be able
to identify it. thanks.
Merilyn
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July, 2006:
Hi there. I
was out in the backyard admiring some snapdragon flowers we have, and I was
about to touch a petal when I spotted a pale green/white spider there. A few
days passed, and as I was looking online to ID different spider, which
turned out to be a fisher spider, or one of the type that look like them,
when I came across your great site. After looking through your site, I had
an urge to go back and find that pale green/white spider, take some pics,
and send them to you to see if you could shed any light on what kind it is?
Thanks,
Shea Evans
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1 July, 2006:
Saw this guy in my front yard feeding on a poor bee.
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6 November, 2005:
Hi Glen, A couple from England for you. Regards, Edwin
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29 October, 2005:
I found this spider? In the backyard this morning I was
wondering if you can identify it for me.
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8 October, 2005:
Here is two more for you. Both from a rose in my back yard
(Washington State, USA). I'm pretty sure this is a Flower Spider
(found on a rose in my back yard, appropriately enough).Thomisus
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3 October, 2005:
Hello,
I found this crab spider on my orange tree here in southern
California it has a somewhat scary Halloween marking on it's back
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6 September, 2005:
A coworker found this spider on his car antana as he got
something out of his truck. It was very small. Can you tell us
anything about it?
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28 August, 2005:
hi glenn, canu you identify this spider? it was found
crawling on my technician in wal-mart pharmacy in plymouth, mass.
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July, 2005:
Excellent web site!!! Very informative!!! Can you help me
Identify this spider??? Very pretty but also kind of scary
looking. Cought the piture of it on these green brier bushes
around our house here in the
Willamette Valley, Oregon. I had been just looking at the blooms
when I saw the bee, and wondered why the bee had not moved,
even after I had touched it. Then I saw the beautifull, but
kinda errie looking spider. Got pretty good pictures though.
Have also seen one or two inside the house. Should
they not be in the house? Anything would help. Thank you for your
time and
you wonderfull web site!!!
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July, 2005: My husband found a completely yellow
spider and we were wondering what it might be...it is about the size
of a dime including the legs...he found it on the car trying to make
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July, 2005: Hi!
My name is Janet, and I love taking flower photos. I was doing just
that when I came across this spider. I was wondering if you could
identify it for me. As far as I can tell it must be a crab spider,
but have searched the web (no pun intended:)) and haven't seen an
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14 May, 2005:
Here is a picture of a crab spider...
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November, 2004:
Found your sit eon the net while looking for spider pictures.
I took this picture of a hummingbird moth last May or June and
forgot about it until I got a new printer and was trying it out.
Any idea of what it may be? I live in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its
on a Butterfly bush. That’s about all of the info I have. I am into
wildlife (have degrees in Forestry and Wood Products) but I work,
use my camera and spare time for motorcycle stunting. Thanks for any
help
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26 October, 2004:
My friend just sent me this photo. He said he took it through
a loupe. We live in Los Angeles, CA. Unfortunately he didn't tell me
how large it was. Can you identify it?
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19 October, 2004:
Dear Cool Spider Site, I found a spider on a buddies truck
that we had never seen before in Oregon. My buddy has a lot of
furniture imported from Indonesia and thought maybe this spider
originated from that region. We all are curious what kind of spider
this is and if you could identify it, is it dangerous?? I look
forward to hearing back from you.
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August, 2004:
This photo was taken in upstate NY, what kind of spider is
this???
Norma J. Hildebrand
Project Coordinator
GlaxoSmithKline
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26 July, 2004:
I was wondering if you could tell me what kind of spider this
is. I took this picture in New Jersey this past weekend. As you can
see he is sitting on the flower enjoying a fly for lunch. If you
could get back to me that would be great.
Thanks!
Erin Anderson
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18 July, 2004:
Found this little fellow on an orchid that blew off a plant
in the wind. All I could see at first was the moth then noticed the
silk coming off it and then the tiny white and translucent crab
spider. I moved it onto another yellow orchid where it could live
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Can you tell me what kind of spider this is? Found in Pacific
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2003:
Great pages!
Will attach a photo of one my son found on our
roses last night, which by scanning your photos
looks like the white Crab Spider you show. This one caught my son's
eye first because we have not seen any number of white spiders here
in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Then he noticed that the two horizontal
strips on the spider's body were also pink, and wondered if the
spider was capable of colour change. Any thoughts?
Murray Thompson
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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This is a species of Crab Spider, found with a fly on a
Zinnia last summer. This spider had trash service! Ants would
come by and clear away all the fly husks on a daily basis.
barb
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10 March, 2002:
On studying a neighbour's roses I wondered why a bee appeared
to be stuck in the petals of one of them. On closer inspection, we
found this beautiful white spider firmly attached to the bee, trying
to make a meal of it. I suspect it is a crab spider (flower spider)
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