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Is this a type of wolf spider?
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- Submitted: Dec 14, 2021
- Photographed: Dec 14, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Ruston , Louisiana, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
It’s a Six-spotted Fishing Spider, Dolomedes triton. Thanks for giving it a guess. The easiest ways to tell them from Wolf Spiders are that Fishing Spiders are much better at climbing verticals and they have pointy posteriors. This species has distinctive white lines and spots which really help with the identification.
Cool! I’ve never seen those around our area here. We’ve found a lot of different spider species though. I was so excited to find a large Texas brown tarantula and two jumping spiders! I posted the jumping spiders too. 🙂 I believe I posted the tarantula before but I’m not sure.
You posted them all. To see all of your photo, click your username then the camera icon. The speech bubble icon shows you everything you wrote in the discussion forum. I was really excited to find my first Fishing Spider too, they sound exotic, but they were fishing in a shallow brook next-to local humans who were fishing for small fish too.