Comments & ID Thoughts
Black spider with orange body that sticks up like a scorpion in Camden NC 5/20/2019, outside crawling on string of lights, but I think it was inside the flap that covers the plug. I disturbed it when I plugged in the lights and it crawled and a fast clip down the wire, onto the flyswatter which carried him to his new home in the woods. I have no idea what-so-ever what kind of spider it is, but would love to know because I think there was a tinier version inside my camper last week.
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- Submitted: May 20, 2019
- Photographed: May 20, 2019
- Spider: Arilus cristatus (Wheel Bugs)
- Location: Camden, North Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi, this isn’t a spider. Looks like a Wheel Bug nymph. What looks like a fourth pair of legs are antennae.
Thank you so much! A couple of friends on Facebook also (at the same time you sent a response) sent a YouTube video to me to learn more about them, and told me they are also called Assassin Bugs. Thank you for responding to my query.