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The White Banded Fishing Spider is not one of the more aquatic species. It is generally found in trees.
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Reply: This looks like a white banded fishing
spider - glen
26 August, 2011:
Hello,
Stumbled on to your spider website and thought I would email you some pictures...
I found this spider on our porch out front of our house and was wondering if you could identify it. My father was cleaning the porch an stumbled upon this guy (above our front door no less) and we were both just like, "Wow." I took several pictures but I'll send the best ones I got of him. One where I took it with the flash on and the other where we held a measuring stick up near him (surprisingly he did not move during ANY of this) for size comparison.
Hope you can help us figure out what he is. Thank you!
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Reply: I think this is a white banded fishing
spider - glen
4 August, 2011:
This clinic is at the top of the doorway going into our clinic. Should be have it removed? Is it dangerous and what is it?
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Reply: I think it is a white banded fishing
spider too - glen
16 July, 2011:
hi, glen!
i wanted to see if you could please identify the spider in the photographs i took early this morning and later in the morning.
i went outside today around 6:30 am to give our dogs fresh water to drink since we are having high temperature warnings today through tomorrow morning. i realized that the "leaf" i thought was floating in the dogs' water bowl was not a leaf, but, a rather large spider. i nearly had a heart attack, lol! the spider has not moved since being removed from the water bowl, and i'm afraid is dead.
here's a couple of pics i took of this big guy. after reading the information on your website and looking at pics that people have submitted, i think it might possibly be a wolf spider. i do not see the violin pattern on the spiders back/abdomen, so i don't think it's a brown recluse.
does the brown recluse grow to be as large as the wolf spider found in the state of georgia??
thanks for your time, and i look forward to hearing from you!
sincerely,
jan
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spider - glen
24 June, 2011:
What type of spider is this?
Photo taken June 4, 2011, Thank you; |
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Reply: I think this is a white banded fishing
spider - glen
11 November, 2010:
Do you know what type of spider this is?? Saw it this past Saturday and the temp outside was around 50 degrees. We live in Alabama, if that help too.
Thanks!!!!!
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Reply: I think this is a white banded fishing
spider - glen
10 October, 2010:
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Reply: I think this is a white banded fishing
spider too - glen
7 July, 2010:
I live in Alabama, in the woods, and I took a photo of this spider out on my deck. Leg span was as large as my palm. I have never seen anything like it around here. Had a brown speckled body with a WHITE HEAD. I thought I was seeing things. Would you mind emailing me back and letting me know what you think? Pic is attached.
Thanks!
Tracy,
McCalla, Alabama |
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Reply: I think this is a white banded fishing
spider - glen
7 July, 2010:
What kind of spider is this? |
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Reply: It could be a white banded fishing
spider - glen 22 June, 2010:
Spider ID needed |
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3 May, 2010:
We found this spider in our garage. I would really like to know what kind it
is.
Thank you
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Reply: No it's not a brown recluse, it is a
white banded fishing spider - glen
26 July, 2009:
Not sure what kind of spider this guy is. I do not think it is a brown recluse is it? |
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Reply: I think this is a Whitebanded Fishing Spider -
Dolomedes albineus. glen
5 May, 2009:
Here's a really great closeup we got of a tree trunk spider (jumping spider family) in Franklin, TN, snacking on a mosquito hawk in our kitchen window
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13 October, 2007:
hi glen! i am from Austria, Burgenland, and i caught this
spider (attached) . can you tell me what kind of spider this is
and if it is dangerous. thanks and greets from austria.
...interesting page you have! lukas
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A great example of camoflauge!!
24 July, 2007:
Can you tell me what kind of spider this is. Found in NW
South Carolina in a
wooded area.
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Reply: Fishing spider, species Dolomedes albineus. Nathan
13 October, 2006:
Here is a cool spider that was on my azalia
bush.. I dont know what kind, maybe a wolf
spider.... you can share it if you like...Pelion,sc
Billy Brown oct 2006 later...
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16 August, 2006:
Hi, I've used your site before to identify
spiders I've come across, but I'm not
sure about this one. I'm going to guess
af ishing spider, only because the branch he was
on was hanging over a small stream, but the
fishing spider pictures all look so different,
and I didn't see one posed like this spider.
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Reply: Looks like a Dolodemes sp.- some sort of
fishing spider.
1 August, 2005:
Glen,
This guy has been hanging out in my screened in porch (in central
Alabama) for a couple of days now. Can you help identify him/her for
me?Thanks in advance - oh, by the way, terrific web site!
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Reply: Looks like a Dolodemes sp.- some sort of
fishing spider.
1 August, 2005:
Thought you might like to add this to your collection (not
that you need "another" photo of a spider......! This is our
"little friend" on our front porch in South Carolina (maybe
he/she has already had an appetizer......). Thanks again for your
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July, 2005:
Hi Glen,
Would this be a Carolina Wolf Spider? We live in Little River, South
Carolina, and this critter was hanging out by the front porch light
last night and this morning. Thanks, and great web site!
Mike Duva
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Reply: The spiders of the 13th and
8th are both in Dolomedes, and are the same species, only I don't
know which exact Dolomedes that would be. Sorry. Nathan
8 July, 2005:
My husband found this spider on our kids
swingset. It is on a 2x4, we would like to know what kind of spider
this is and is it harmful? Thank You, Christie - Crowley TX. |
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These spiders resemble the wolf spiders (Lycosidae), but have a
different eye pattern.
Pisaurids have their eyes arranged in 2 rows, the posterior row
slightly recurved, the median eyes in the second row slightly (if
any) larger than the others. (Wolf spiders have eyes arranged in 3
rows). The egg sac is carried by the female under her
