Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)

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Hello everyone. My wife had this spider on her foot last night. She felt a tickle and looked down and saw him or her on her foot. Does anyone know what species this could possible be? And I worries we were to safetly release hisnto wild.

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TangledWeb

Insight into the spider/snake thing: many people attribute human emotions and motivations to spiders, but not snakes. Phobes are more likely to expect a spider to plot something or spy on them or strike when they aren’t looking. Not much thought is attributed to snakes. People know how snakes move but spiders vary, they can move extremely fast ( they hold some speed records for land animals) and they can jump in any direction. There’s more misinformation that hypes fiction about spiders. The public is more knowledgeable about snakes. There’s thick five foot water snakes in a local park. Almost… Read more »

Zorathex

This is an American grass spider, (Agelenopsis utahana) its harmless.

ItsyBitsy

Very likely a Nursery Web Spider, Pisaurina mira.

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