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I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. I initially thought this was a Wolf Spider, but he was working on a web, and I recall hearing that Wolf Spiders don't use webs.
Any Idea?
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- Submitted: May 24, 2021
- Photographed: May 24, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Laird, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Spotted Indoors: Basement or Cellar
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Maybe something in the genus steadota? The photo is extremely blurry so it’s difficult to tell much.
Yeah it definitely could be. My phone camera really sucks, and he wouldn’t sit still so I could get a decent picture. It didn’t really have any distinguishable features, it was pretty well solid brown. It seemed to get quite aggressive when I tried to manually move it.
Probably steadota then, they can be pretty grumpy. Steadota grossa would be my guess if it’s a flat brown, but it could also be Steatoda bipunctua.
He had a pretty narrow body, it wasn’t a bubble shape like the Steadota family.
I tried my method of desperation for vague photos (most phone cameras suck for close-ups). I run the photo through Google Lens, a “computer vision” app. The top answer was a jumping spider that didn’t match, the second answer is usually the most accurate: “wolf spider.” A back-up answer, my favorite, was “waving octopus.” I don’t think any of those answers are correct.