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- Submitted: Aug 10, 2025
- Photographed: Aug 10, 2025
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Alaska, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 205298
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A crab spider, Thomisidae family. Love the color, and the fuzziest I have seen.
I think this is a European species. The hairy crab spider https://inaturalist.lu/taxa/486490-Heriaeus-hirtus
I think what’s happening is that people outside of the US are choosing US locations.
I have a suspicion that the other surprising spider …Zoropsis spinimana…in London Ontario…was actually seen in London England
Yea, it is nothing I recognise, but its habitus says crab spider.
We still have the names of countries on other continents in our “Locations” and that doesn’t send the message that we aren’t doing them anymore. I asked Kyle to remove the locations from the list and I asked if we can block uploads from IP addresses that aren’t this continent. I also requested that it not affect comments because I don’t want to block Nod or anyone else from the comments sections.
I don’t find anything wrong with the way Kyle set up a global spider ID, but it will add many thousands of spiders to our database. I would not want to see any country or person blocked. Between the world spider catalog, inaturalist, and spiders in the world, we should have this covered. Some of our foreign members have been priceless here and helped me list many arachnids I never knew of.