What kind of spider is this?
August 22, 2013 6:57 PM   Subscribe

What kind of spider is this? San Diego, CA, if helpful.
posted by delladlux to Science & Nature (9 answers total)
 
If no one here can ID it, you can always try the sub-reddit called "What Is This Bug?"
posted by bluecore at 7:10 PM on August 22, 2013


That looks like a brown widow to this San Diegan.

Kill it with fire!
posted by These Birds of a Feather at 7:11 PM on August 22, 2013


Cephalothorax looks kind of big for a brown widow. Also, the legs look like they have some fine hairs on them (can't entirely tell due to focus) which suggests some flavor of orb weaver. Maybe some flavor of cross spider.

It kind of reminds my wife of her stuffed animal araneus diadematus, but that's not exactly it.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 7:21 PM on August 22, 2013


Looks like an Orb Weaver. It's not a Brown Widow.
posted by oneirodynia at 7:22 PM on August 22, 2013 [1 favorite]


Yeah it doesn't look like a brown widow. Brown widows aren't very dangerous anyway. It's the black ones you gotta watch out for.
posted by Justinian at 7:26 PM on August 22, 2013


Is this your card?

Larinioides cornutus aka the furrow spider.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 7:27 PM on August 22, 2013 [1 favorite]


For future reference, when taking photos of spiders for ID it really helps to get good shots of the cephalothorax so that you can see the position of the eyes.
posted by Alice Russel-Wallace at 7:57 PM on August 22, 2013


Whatever it is, we get those here in Long Beach. Scores of them every year. Early September, usually.

*notices calendar*

Oh. So, those are Orb Weavers we get every year? They are fast spider web spinners, I'll give them that.
posted by notyou at 11:09 PM on August 22, 2013


Oh! I call those face-eating spiders, because they always seem to build webs at eye-level.
posted by professor plum with a rope at 3:06 AM on August 23, 2013 [1 favorite]


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