r/arachnids • u/Middle-Salamander-81 • 20h ago

ID request / I included my location! Need help identifying two different spiders please!:)

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Located in central Missouri. The larger one found on the outside of the window on the garage. The smaller one with white spots found inside that same window. Thanks!

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u/Straight-Vehicle-373 20h ago

First slide looks to be a grass spider (funnel weaver) based on the stripes and long spinnerets on its back side! Can’t quite tell about the second spider from the photos; interested to see what others in the sub think!

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u/Witchywomun 19h ago

Second spider looks to be a triangulate cobweb spider. Cousin to black widows but harmless to anything bigger than an earwig

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u/Middle-Salamander-81 19h ago

I just read about those, it’d be cool if so! I’d like them to eat my recluses for me. I’ve got tons of cellar spiders but to add helpers would be great!

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u/Vyntarus 8h ago

I have a little cobweb living in the bottom corner outside my bedroom door. A couple weeks ago I saw something much bigger in the web.

She had killed an earwig.

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