/r/arachnids
A Reddit community about arachnids (spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites and more)
Rules:
- Please acquaint yourself with and respect the subreddit's rules and our content policy.
- For ID requests, always include a geographic location. If you're concerned about your privacy, you can make it a bit more vague, e.g. "New England" instead of "Boston, MA".
- Amateurs are encouraged to guess. An important exception is guesses about medically significant arachnids (widows, recluses, Brazilian wandering spiders, Sydney funnel-webs, deathstalker scorpions, etc.). In those cases, leave it to people who know. Otherwise, an innocent person or arachnid could get hurt.
- Please, no pictures of skin booboos and other lesions... we cannot tell you what spider bit you without seeing the spider, nor is it possible to tell reliably that a spider or something else bit you.
- "Kill it with fire" ain't funny, so don't bother posting that. Please and thank you.
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/r/arachnids
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How do I differentiate whether a spider is just tiny or it's a baby?
Saw a little tiny spider dangling from a thread on my lamp and I took it outside. I might have let it stay there if I had known it would not grow into a huge spider. Is there any way to tell whether a tiny spider is just that size or whether it's a baby spider that will grow into a monster? Also, like everybody else I occasionally have spiders but I'm wondering why I never hear of anybody who has a problem with a spider having babies in its home and then being overrun by whole families of spiders. Do spiders only have babies outside?
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Help with tailless whip
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What are the actually lethal spider species?
I know about the black widow, the Goliath tarantula. But are there any other? I'm a "pet the critter" enthusiastic, so I always want to take the spider in my hands and pet it, but I read many years ago that the actually harmful spider species were a few, is that true?
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