Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Spider Identification Help... Common Topic

I have a couple of new spiders in my collection. One of them survived. Here are two photos of it...

unidentified white spiderunidentified white spider

unidentified white spiderunidentified white spider
sorry this shot is SO yellow!

It is TINY... the leg-span width (not length) is about as wide as my thumbnail is long... if that helps at all.

So... any idea what it is? I gave it a small cricket... hoping it could manage. It did, the cricket was drained dry by morning! It's a pretty lil thing.

I caught it in our garden in front of the house. (Gosh, do you think it could be a GARDEN spider??) I couldn't find it in my Field Guide.

Here is the other spider...

spiderthe other spider

I can't be confident I've identified it from the field guide or online searches. This one was caught in a web at the top of the inside of a porta-john. My Husband caught it for me, ain't he sweet?! And so I named it Johnny. heh

This one liked to play dead a lot. I'd think it was dead, but when I'd pick up the container, it would start moving around again. It liked to get into this odd position where it would hang with all it's legs forward (or up). Very strange. Any ideas as to the species?

Thanks all!
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  1. Stampin' Mom of FourJune 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM

    I just saw one of the spiders on my purse at Walmart and was trying to identify it when I found the photo on your blog. Have you ever identified it? I'm a little curious because this spider was so unusual. I had nothing to "capture" it in to take it home.

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    1. Momma JorjeJuly 4, 2012 at 2:31 PM

      Which one? The white one is some sort of crab spider, but that is just a sort of collection - there are lots of crab spiders.

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  2. KissieJuly 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM

    I found one of the white spiders in my boyfriends back garden.. We live in england.. Is this spider from a different country & is it poisonous, I hate spiders & now dare not go to my boyfriends house lmao please wb

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  3. UnknownAugust 28, 2018 at 1:56 AM


    White Crab Spider sometimes is also known as White Flower Spider. This species of Flower Spiders are a little larger than the Diaea species. White Crab Spiders also hide in flower plants waiting for preys. Their abdomen just look like the flower buds. At day time they rest in their retreats made by the leafs and their silk, which are usually on the underside of leaves. At night they sit beside the flower and wait for the visitors, such as the small moths.

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