Carolina spiders

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

Poor little spiders, buried down in a sub-forum... :-)

I spent almost ten months last year (2007-2008) in Durham, and was able to bring home a small number of the spider species I came across. Always interested to hear about more though. I hope(!) to have time this winter to put up a "spiders of Durham" page, but until then, here's the largest spider that I brought home with me, a male trapdoor spider (Ummidia sp.) that was out in search of a mate shortly before we left...


Best wishes from Berlin,

Kevin Pfeiffer

[Will Cook]

Wow, that's awesome! Looking forward to seeing your spiders of Durham page.

For folks who are looking to ID spiders, one of the best online resources is the spiders section at Bugguide.net. Their main spider page is http://bugguide.net/node/view/1954

I'm definitely not a spider expert, so if anyone feels like trying to ID some of my spider pics, I'd appreciate it! See http://www.carolinanature.com/spiders/.

[Kevin Pfeiffer]

For folks who are looking to ID spiders, one of the best online resources is the spiders section at Bugguide.net. Their main spider page is http://bugguide.net/node/view/1954

If you have good images (where the spider takes up more than 70% of the image and hasn't been stepped on or chewed by the cat) then please feel free to also post them at the Nearctic Forum (link in my signature below), otherwise send them to BugGuide.

Just kidding -- no matter where, you need reasonably sharp images of the spider, not the table, the floor or the bathtub, just spider, from one side of the picture to the other. (You laugh now, but if you spend a little time browsing through "what bug is this" pictures, you'll see what I mean.) :-)

-K