#amaurobius

[onenicebugperday]

@fetus-cakes submitted: (please do not post with location:[removed])

this goober literally jumped on my keyboard with an audible thud! or maybe she fell? either way she did not want to stay for photos

She was trying to type you a message! Wonder what she was going to say

[herpsandbirds]

found him in my sink!! what is he? bit bigger than my thumb.

This big fellow is a...

Black Lace Weaver (Amaurobius ferox), male, family Amaurobiidae, native to Europe

- The spiders have been introduced into Southeastern, Canada, and the northeastern United States.

- The males have slimmer abdomen, and large noticeable pedipalps with white or yellow spots on the front.

[wild-e-eep]

A lace-webbed spider - Amaurobius similis - a common kind of house spider that specialises in webbing up window sills.

[onenicebugperday]

Submitted by @therewithacamera​ without comment but they let me know their location via IM and requested an ID. This friend looks like a lace web spider in the genus Amaurobius, though I can’t tell exactly which one from this photo alone :)

[onenicebugperday]

@verderi submitted: A startlingly large fellow in our sink in central ohio. This pic makes it look brown but irl it looked black and almost shiny? The long pedipalps with white things at the end were neat; ive never seen this kind before. ID please?

Ohhhhhhh a man! And a friend. The silly pedipalps are because he's a male, females don't have those. Anyhoo he looks like a black laceweaver :)

[onenicebugperday]

@the-gay-dad-friend​ submitted: When I was gardening in [removed], (please remove location) I found a few friends.

I'm pretty sure the pupae are cut worms, and they look pretty close to hatching. And I think the spider might be some kind of False Black Widow. I have no idea what the eggs are though.

Definitely could be cutworms! It’s often hard to tell in the pupal stage. The spider looks more like a blacklaceweaver (Amaurobius ferox) than it does a false widow, and the “eggs” look more like galls from gall wasps or gall mites, though I don’t know which species offhand without comparing a bunch of photos.

[onenicebugperday]

hello!!! i’m in western pennsylvania and i’ve been finding these fellas all over my apartment, any idea what kind of guy they are?

The cute kind!! I love this lil friend. She looks like a female black laceweaver. Males have noticeably large and bulbous pedipalps. :)

[onenicebugperday]

@penniger​ submitted: Found what I believe to be a Black Laceweaver, Amaurobius ferox, in my basement.

Milwaukee, WI

Ohhhh he is beautiful I love him! Look at those pedipalps. These are excellent pictures, too, good job. He does indeed look like a black laceweaver :)