Comments & ID Thoughts
What spider is this. It was the size of my palm-pretty big. Looked like a gray tarantula sort of. I’m in NW Georgia
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- Submitted: Aug 23, 2019
- Photographed: Aug 15, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: calhoun, Georgia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This looks like fishing spider they grow big is it near water.
No it’s not near any water at all
I just looked up fishing spider and it does say that there is one type d.albenius that is tree dwelling and lives in the southeastern United States so it could be
You are correct. This is a white banded fishing spider, D. albineus.