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Is this the fishing spider?
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- Submitted: Jul 23, 2018
- Photographed: Jun 29, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Lima, Ohio, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 26194
Looks like it.
Seen in Southern Ohio forest late night/early morning in yard & driveway; VERY Large black spider; flashlight catches reflection of their eyes; carry live babies on back; seen nearly 100 in 1 year time span.
Anyone know what they are?
Wolf spider. Large black ones might be in the genus Tirgrosa.
https://spiderid.com/spider/lycosidae/tigrosa/
Why so Large and so many this year? Nearly 9 years living here and this is the first year they have appeared.
Hi. this oes look like a dark fishing spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus species. They are not dangerous at all, maybe intimidating not used to spiders this size.
As far as spotting them, it is unpredictable, some years none, some years everywhere.
I am on two years now and the only spiders save for my spider bush, have been two little jumping spiders.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2011/bgimage
This is about average size for grown adults:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/577443
These are often confused with wolf spiders.