Comments & ID Thoughts
Please Help me Identify the spider!
Black with white Stripes and this is the second time I have found one in my home the first one was at least 20% bigger than this picture. Maybe more of an adult?
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- Submitted: Jun 17, 2019
- Photographed: Jun 30, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Attleboro , Massachusetts, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Garage or shed
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Looks like a dark fishing spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus. Big, but not dangerous.
They do get bigger as they get older and females have a longer series of molts than males which allows the females to grow significantly larger than males of their species.