#philodromus

[onenicebugperday]

Howdy! This lil guy was on my ceiling and I see these type of spider around quite a lot, but I haven't been able to identify them 100%. I'm hoping these are good enough photos but it was hard to get a pic with it so high up there. In North East Wisconsin! :^) thanks!

Cute lil dude. Looks like a running crab spider :)

[coffeenuts]

[unkn0wnvariable]

Sunny Crab Spider

A running-crab spider sitting in the sun, amongst the flowers of yellow clary.

[kuhliloaches]

[herpsandbirds]

Cool guy that I found at the library at my university. It's been scurrying around the table for the past little bit. I don't think I've ever seen this one before?

Located in Alberta! :)

Spider ID - ALB, Canada:

Hello, yess, this looks to me like one of the Running Crab Spiders (Philodromus sp. or Apollophanes sp.), family Philodromidae.

Any spider people have a suggestion for which species it might be?

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Home Edition!

I'm a bit late posting this, but I found a lot of friends last week! I couldn't ID a lot of these, unfortunately. First up, the "probably aphids trio".

Unsure of ID, possibly a pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum). A lot of the other things I found didn't seem native to North America

Unsure of ID, possibly also some kind of aphid. Bad photo, I know. My phone camera is becoming more and more dogshit every day

Unsure of ID, but this also seems like a pea aphid

Unsure of ID, a fly in the Condylostylus genus.

Unsure of ID, a mayfly of some kind. Saw this on my friend's car

Unsure of exact ID, but it's definitely a skipper butterfly, either Polites peckius (Peck's Skipper) or Epargyreus clarus (Silver-spotted Skipper). Still can't get a good shot of these guys, they're lightning fast

Unsure of ID, possibly an Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus). This butterfly was zooming around up near the roof. I just kept snapping photos until I got one that helped me sort of identify it.

Unsure of ID, possibly pseudoedophrys hilleri, which is a kind of broad-nosed weevil. It's dead and suspended in an abandoned spiderweb.

Unsure of ID, as it disappeared quickly. A black wasp of some kind

An assassin bug nymph (Reduviidae family). Kind of cute tbh. I haven't seen an adult one yet.

A White-striped Running Crab Spider (Philodromus rufus). Finally an identification I can be confident in! Crab spiders are so funny, I love them

An Eastern leaf-footed bug nymph (Leptoglossus phyllopus).

And finally, a lady beetle with a parasitic fungus called Hesperomyces virescens. It doesn't usually kill them, and honestly it looks kinda neat. I didn't notice it until after I took the photo.

Next week (or possibly sooner), we'll have a Zuzu's Bug-ventures Jersey Shore edition!

[halffizzbin]

THE SPIDER UPDATE

Finding orb-weavers just seems like Easy Mode now, so of course my stupid brain requires a challenge. We're going fully webless babes!

It's been a tense, odd week of staring at a lot of stucco walls in the hot sun with very limited success lol CLICK THROUGH FOR PHOTOS

Here are some wall friends, not officially identified but I think maybe Selenops genus? (They camouflage well, and they also tend to flatten themselves to walls or right into little dents or holes, so I still haven't managed any truly clear photos, and no sign of the the eyes, which is usually how I’d ID for sure. Hence the staring at walls all week.)

EDIT: Figured these guys out eventually! Wall spiders (Oecobiidae), probably Oecobius genus.

This one I think is a running crab spider (Philodromus genus, different from the crab spider I found in the rose).

She’s got her eggs! And when I found her the next day, she also had, uhhhhh….

Well. I think that’s one of the little Selenops guys she’s got pinned under her jaws lol oh well! Circle of life!

I do not know who this lady is. False black / brown widow perhaps?

EDIT: Eventually got this ID from iNaturalist: GROUND SAC SPIDER (Trachelidae): Genus Trachelas

And not to play favorites but saved the best for last:

(Oh and because I truly didn't grasp the size of these things until I started looking for them in person, here is the little gray one next to my index finger)

I need you to fully understand how impossible it is that I found any of these lol my passion is overcoming my nearsightedness and severe lack of depth perception

[handwerkstatt]

Philodromus dispar, ca. 4-5 mm, 1 Bein fehlt.

Philodromus dispar, about 4-5 mm, 1 leg missing.

[camoangel]

There’s a fucking spider in my room and I don’t know where the fuck it is it just disappeared I’m genuinely tweaking help I can’t stop crying. I can feel my hair falling down omg. I’m loosing my mind.

Send help telepathically pls

Update : I did some research and it’s apparently a philodromus idfk I wanna die

[ichbineinkriechend]

had to escort this fine gentleman out of our house

[ID: Three pictures of the same small, black spider with long beige legs, taken from different angles It's probably a weißrandiger Flachstrecker (philodromus dispar).]

[onenicebugperday]

@melodraca submitted: I was was trying to ID this guy, but I'm sooo bad at identifying arachnids 😷 they're really fun to watch scuttle around though! (Calgary, Canada)

What a lovely, leggy man! It's a running crab spider, likely in the genus Philodromus :)

[grigadf]

Here's also some guys I found last week

A mini stag beetle(Sinodendron cylindricum) and a crab spider(Philodromus cespitum)

[unkn0wnvariable]

Camouflaged Crab Spider

A running crab spider, doing a good job of blending in with a variegated buddleja leaf.

[kuhliloaches]

[ifelten]

Art af løbekrabbeedderkop (Philodromus sp.)

Species of Running Crab Spider (Philodromus sp.)

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Arachtober!

Check out the coloring on this metallic crab spider (Philodromus marxi)! It looks like an Xmas ornament!