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found this spider in a white web in grapes...cant tell if its alive or not..didnt really want to mess with it, i bagged it up with the couple grapes it was webbed to and not sure if i should just toss it in the trash..dont really want to kill it but dont want to release it if its invasive...can anyone id it? looks brownish with two dots on its back...very small..container says product of usa
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- Submitted: Sep 29, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 22, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: waterbury , Connecticut, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Looks kind of like a jumping spider
it kind of does..hard to tell through the webbing but i didnt want to poke it and have it jump out at me lol….i have a jumping spider living in my windowsill plants..comes through the window spaces i guess…its a black one though 🙂
Hi. Truth here is I don’t know. several spiders hang out in grape vines, a good place to hunt prey.
They harvest grapes and refrigerate which many spiders make a sleeping bag and go dormant.
Just in curiosity, I would put everything in a deli tray w/lid and keep at room temps a good while and see if the spider comes out of its nap.
It does look like a jumping spider though.
i actually have it sitting on my counter in a ziploc bag waiting to see if its just sleeping…i agree that it could be a possible jumper..about the size i normally see ….just usually see black hairy ones here but im assuming these grapes came from california..
https://bugguide.net/adv_search/bgsearch.php?taxon=1993&location%5B%5D=CA The link is to photos all of the Jumping Spiders in genus Phidippus that have been submitted to the citizen science site Bugguide.net from California in the last 19 years. If it emerges, it might wait for darkness. Please keep some air flow for it. Thank you for asking about invasiveness. Invasive Species are something I focus my energy on fighting and teaching about. Many California jumping spiders aren’t in New England. I think they could survive here since they are from a vineyard region and Connecticut has vineyards. I don’t know which species live in Northern CA. The… Read more »