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- Submitted: Sep 7, 2018
- Photographed: Sep 7, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Bar Harbor, Maine, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 34967
Anyone please help I don’t know what kind of spider this is. I’m terrified of them and don’t know how to kill it
Hi. this is one of the male orb weavers, Araneidae family. None of these are dangerous at all, a beneficial spider, just no call to kill any of these, much less for fear alone. As a kid, I was forever playing with these, taking them ou of their web, letting hem crawl on hands and arms, mke a live yo-yo of them, then put them back, Never bitten by any of this family, and no harm if the should. Where you find hese, if hey are out of the way with their big webs, just leave them undisturbed. Long come… Read more »
Shamrock orbweavers as “live yo-yos”, Dan?! You had a heck of a childhood!