Unidentified

Comments & ID Thoughts

I have ever assumed this was a Hogna Carolinensis (Carolina Wolf Spider), but after discovering that a photo of a similarly giant spider I took a few years ago was not the H.c.I thought it was, but rather, a Dark Fishing Spider, I thought should post this year to verify.

My son found this girl in a silk-lined hole beside our tent in the campground at Devil's Tower. We teased her out with a blade of grass, into my hand, where we got this photo.

• Submitted by: 
  
  spidermanly
• Submitted: Jun 29, 2026
• Photographed: Jun 21, 2015
• Spider: Unidentified
• Location: Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming, United States
• Spotted Outdoors: Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
• Found in web?: Yes
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