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- Submitted: Apr 18, 2021
- Photographed: Apr 18, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Claremore, Oklahoma, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 136304
Black house spider would be my guess
I didn’t check your location originally (oops) but this is actually much more likely to be a black lace weaver.
I’m not sure it looks like more of a trapdoor spider.
I’m not great at these kinds of spiders, so I’ll trust your expertise. That would also make sense since it was found on the ground
I’m no expert I’m 11 lol, the specific species is Ummidia sp at least I think.
there seem to be quite a bit of the species roaming around Oklahoma at the current time sadly, these species are fairly unknown.
That looks like a pretty good match to me! I’m a teen so I don’t have much expertise either 😛
yea, I looked up Oklahoman trapdoor spider species and I found a few of them but, we’re also similar to the same genus. I’ve probably been to arachnids for 4 years of my life so I would say I’m pretty into spiders, lolz.
Impressive! Do you keep any spiders?
not officially but I’ve saved a few spiders from getting smooshed by my mom. I made a feeding video on my Channel today feeding my male Rabid wolf spider, (his name is Flapjack btw.) absolutely awesome takedowns but sadly I wasn’t recording when he took it down. in the future, I plan on getting an Arizona blond tarantula
I’m honestly shocked how you knew the black lace Weaver I’ve actually never heard of it before, cool-looking spider! it’s crazy how much I don’t even know yet there’s a whole different world of arachnids out there!
That’s really cool! Most of my money goes towards figure skating, so I just have spiders that I catch in my yard or the local nature preserve. Parson spiders are one of my favorites, since they are pretty and really good hunters 🙂
yeah same I’m taking a nature preserve volunteer class at my local Nature Center and last time we caught some crawdads and I found a crab spider swimming in the water, also I’ve never heard of those parson spiders they look awesome!
(here’s Flapjack eating an oriental cockroach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkbtW2kyEk .) also, I treat Flapjack like a puppy dog lol!
Very cool! I’m too old for the camps at our preserve, but my Mom is a professor there so I’m allowed in the preserve 🙂
nice! that’s awesome, how do you learn about so much spider stuff? is it just experience over time?
I’ve learned a lot from this site, but the biology professors at my university are nice and have taught me a lot 🙂
cool, are you into movies? if so and you have enough free time you should watch this movie called eight-legged freaks if you haven’t already, this movie was originally what got me into spiders. it’s so bad it’s good.
I don’t watch a ton of movies but I’ll see if I can find it!
ye, you might have to rent it which kind of sucks. 🙁
if you were to have enough money to buy a captive-bred spider what species would you buy?
Probably a red knee tarantula or a goliath bird eater. I enjoy designing dnd scenes and minis, so I think it would be a lot of fun to make a fantasy style terrarium. What about you?
yea! that sounds awesome! in my case if I were to get one I could get the Trinidad Chevron, grammostola pulchra (Brazilian black), and the Goliath birdeater
or even a poki.
Very cool! When I get an apartment I am excited to have a small reptile/arachnid room 🙂
yeah, I’m a long way away from that but, hopefully if my luck is through the roof I might be able to bribe my parents to get me a tarantula
I hope that works! It’s still going to be a while until I can live on my own, but I’m already saving up 😛
yeah I plan to get a job at my local Braum’s at 14 years old, (yes they do hire at 14 years old)
cool story me and my friend Nathan which is 9 years old (he lives across the street) found two female black widows and caught them in cups. 0_0
… isn’t the Black Widow the M O S T D A N G E R O U S S P I D E R I N N O R T H A M E R I C A ? I can’t believe how stupid we were
I’ve never actually seen a black widow in person :0. There are a lot of limitations for places I can work at my age, so job searching is a struggle.
hmmm, I totally feel you right now there are not many specific jobs for people who like spiders/arachnids
have you ever been bitten by a spider? in my case I got bit by a bold jumping spider
right on the tip of my middle finger
I’ve been bitten by a few, mostly sac spiders because I’m around them a lot and mine are pretty cranky :P. I avoid handling mine though because I have a low pain tolerance.
oof, I tried to handle my wolf spider I caught because he got knocked down from his enclosure by my cat and escaped into my closet and I free handled him back to his enclosure. and that is the reason why my mom doesn’t want me owning a tarantula or doesn’t want me to be an entomologist because she thinks I’ll get bit
Depends on the spider of course, but being bitten isn’t that bad from my experience. Unless you are allergic, most spider bites are more annoying than painful
true but I specifically want to research and study the Sydney funnel-web spiders and some old world tarantulas which can be sometimes deadly venomous
Ah that makes sense. I’m mostly into spider keeping as a hobby. I currently sell some art, but I’m hoping to become full time some day 🙂
yeah, I’m kind of going through a lot of phases right now but, I hope to become a professional one day…
I hope that works out for you 🙂
hope that works for you too, too bad spiders doesn’t get a good rap their reputation is getting better but still… also do you mind me asking for your name?
I’m Robyn, if you ever want to chat more my insta is thedoodlingbird with the same profile pic I have here 🙂
cool, nice to meet you Robyn, im Max
Nice to meet you! Hope we can chat again sometime.
good morning, I did some research last night on this spider and I found some cool info!
Oh cool! What did you find?
saddle-like depression on the tibia of the third leg
and these spiders can sometimes make webs slightly underwater to catch fish!
another interesting fact I found is they hide in flowers to catch bees and other pollinators
That’s a cool photo! I didn’t know you could attach photos to comments :0
yea! and these spiders have special fangs that help them dig to make their burrow!
they will act very aggressively if pushed out of their homes!
they will act like funnel webs too, rearing up and showing you their fangs
That’s really amazing! I don’t know much about ground spiders.
yea, not a lot of people do, unfortunately. trapdoors, in general, are very unknown and I hope to learn more about them in the future.
I got confused. So, are you saying you think “my” spider is a Trapdoor Spider?
yes, Ummidia sp, was it around 1.5 in Long?