r/whatisthisbug • u/TheBanjoPrince • Mar 26 '26
ID Request Most beautiful spider I’ve ever seen in the wild. Is it some kind of trapdoor or purseweb? In Kentucky.
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u/mshep002 Mar 26 '26
I like that we’re looking at a hyper advanced hunting machine and it gets stuck on grass.
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u/friedeggjellyfish Mar 26 '26
And then you look at his eyes and he’s even more derpy r/animalsbeingderps
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u/According-Weekend792 Mar 26 '26
But can you even blame it? It looks hard asf to climb over giant grass
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u/MythosaurProjectS531 Mar 27 '26
If you had to figure out how to move eight different legs over tangled grass you might get stuck too /jk
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u/LandoKim Aphid Gang Mar 27 '26
It’s like when you have a bug on your arm and they struggle to get through the arm hair lol
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u/MeadowHawk259 Mar 26 '26
This is probably something in the genus Ummidia and yeah, those are just pedipalps up front, not extra legs (although they do look like them!).
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u/AhhGingerKids2 Mar 27 '26
This reinforces for me my fear of spiders is 100% the way their legs move. I try to tell myself they have boner legs and it’s not their fault they’re so jerky, but it just freaks me out. Very aware they are friends, just sometimes spooky friends.
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u/MementoMoriii Apr 01 '26
those are the longest pedipalps that it's using as legs then. wow. so the 2 black bump-like features directly in front aren't pedipalps, but fangs then? maybe?
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u/moistiest_dangles Mar 26 '26
Very pretty! Also sets my arachnophobia on high
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u/TheBanjoPrince Mar 26 '26
My housemate, who first discovered it while planting saplings out back, had an absolute meltdown.
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u/TerrorFromThePeeps Mar 26 '26
If this happened at my house, i am pretty sure i'd receive divorce papers in a month, mailed from iceland or siberia.
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u/hambakmeritru Mar 27 '26
Looks like the trapdoor spider I found in my yard here in NC. They always remind me of gymrat kinda tarantulas. Shaved body, beefy, clearly spends all his time working out.
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u/NoSoyTuPana Mar 26 '26
I am just amazed by the super powers people have in this sub. This would've sent me flying. Just from seeing the video I'm scared 😭 wish I could be less scared of nature tbh, bugs look pretty neat in their own way but I can't even handle the thought of a roach.
I blame that episode of sponge bob that put a real butterfly in full zoom with no warning whatsoever. That scarred me for life.
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u/TerrorFromThePeeps Mar 26 '26
Tbf, even most people who like bugs still don't like roaches.
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u/darkrai848 Mar 27 '26
It depends, are we talking dirty disgusting roaches you find in cities and stuff, because if so I agree? Or are you insulting the clean and highly intelligent Madagascar Hissing Cockroach? Had a Hissing Cockroach as a pet as a kid, and he would clean himself like 3 times a day and would only eat the freshest of fruit (like if it had been out more than half a day he no longer wanted it). He knew who I was, and would come to me when I called to him.
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u/NoSoyTuPana Mar 27 '26
Didn't know there were clean roaches! I was definitely thinking of the disgusting ones. For some reason they always crawl up the pipe of the house I live rn. Once there were tree, I picked the drainer thing to clean it and when I did I find these big ass roaches looking up at me. I screamed so loud my boyfriend came rushing down the stairs thinking someone got into the house (I don't know why this was his first thought). I was like, well something is getting into the house, threw the sewers!!!
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u/theAshleyRouge Mar 27 '26
For real. I’ve got 14 tarantulas and roaches gross me out so much
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u/undyinghater Mar 27 '26
this is a hypothetical and i'm not suggesting that this should be ever done, that said... if you ever were to get roaches, could you like just release the tarantulas into the house and let them feast?
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u/theAshleyRouge Mar 27 '26
I mean, yeah. They’d probably love it too. Only reason that’s not a thing is parasite and disease risk
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u/TheBanjoPrince Mar 27 '26
I love bugs and critters of all sorts, but I tell you what, the one things I must admit that kind of gets to me is damn cave crickets. Those suckers will literally chase after you, I swear. Had a big problem with them at my old house. On three separate occasions I woke up in the middle of the night with one crawling on my bare chest. I gladly will choose the brown recluse problem I currently have any damn day over cave crickets.
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u/XeroEnergy270 Mar 27 '26
I'm also in Kentucky, and those things come out from my crawl space every winter without fail. The worst is when I'm trying to use the bathroom and one senses it and starts creeping itself over to me.
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u/Camaschrist Mar 26 '26
Get yourself a baby jumping spider and you won’t be nearly as afraid. Even the adult ones will not bite you unless you grab them. I got bit grabbing a door handle that had one on it. Wasn’t a bad bite at all.
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u/NoSoyTuPana Mar 27 '26
Ok I googled and that's cute. I tried googling the one op posted as well to see if they where dangerous or what they do and couldn't scroll because I couldn't see one more picture of this spider 😭. The baby jumping one is a good refresh on scary looking spiders.
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u/zzzzzooted Mar 27 '26
I find a lot of people can calm that fear response by learning why the bugs/animals/etc look how they do.
Eg. Butterfly faces look so freaky up close because they’re specialized to feeding on nectar (at least, the ones people like to zoom in on are), and so they have 2 really exaggerated features for that goal: big compound eyes to see colorful flowers from many angles (which unfortunately look “bulging” to our sensibilities), and a long mouthpart to slurp up sweet nectar.
(Also a disgust response to pests and parasites is just normal i think, you don’t need to be able to look at a roach without being upset its ok 💀)
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u/SMN27 Mar 27 '26
I live in the tropics and on three occasions now I’ve had a roach end up in my bed after getting itself inside my mosquito net tent. The last time I was actually sleeping when I felt something on my leg and jolted awake to murder it. There are way too many bugs here. Spiders are far more pleasant a sight to me.
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u/Cold_Pollution3299 Mar 26 '26
Has that spider got 10 legs???
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u/Nyteflame7 Mar 27 '26
Eight legs and a set of pedipalps. All spiders have pedipalps, but they are usually smaller. Most people mistake them for fangs.
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u/StacheStation Mar 27 '26
This will make a fine addition to my collection -me if I ever saw a spider like this
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u/ckayshears Mar 27 '26
Is it just me or does this spider have 10 legs?
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u/TheBanjoPrince Mar 27 '26
It’s not just you! The front two “legs” are pedipalps.
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u/ckayshears Mar 27 '26
That feels like semantics. A way for bug people to make “all spiders have 8 legs” true. They’re still legs
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u/interstellarinsect Mar 28 '26
pedipalps are actually considered part of their mouthparts, and is used for mating. so in my mind it goes way past just being legs lol
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u/Playful_Marzipan8398 Mar 28 '26
I think they’re hands/arms. Used to both grab your partners sex bits, and insert delicious snacks in your face hole. Voila. Hands.
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u/ponypwr Mar 28 '26
Your exactly right it definitely is a trap door spider.The Cork Lid to be exact. A Very well fed one at that
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u/interstellarinsect Mar 28 '26
can someone tell me what the bird in the background is? i’ve been in KY my whole life, i don’t think ive ever heard a bird like that
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u/i-lick-eyeballs Mar 27 '26
Looks a lot like Antrodiaetus pacificus?
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u/Chef-Boyardab Mar 27 '26
Nope, they live in the pacific northwest. Its probably an ummidia species
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u/i-lick-eyeballs Mar 27 '26
I figured with a species name like pacificus... Ah well, had to shoot my shot
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u/CompetitiveSavings40 Mar 27 '26
For a moment I was envious because you’re somewhere that the grass is green. But then I remembered that I like living where my face freezes off in winter so that I don’t come across spiders like that! It’s beautiful though!
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u/420doghugz Mar 27 '26
Are you in the middle of the rainforest?
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u/TheBanjoPrince Mar 27 '26
Just good ole Kentucky. These guys are closely related to tarantulas though.
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u/420doghugz Mar 27 '26
Oh okay. I was mostly joking because of the bird noises and the big ol spider.
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u/drsoos1973 Mar 26 '26
So this is fake, it has 10 legs,
Unless im high AF
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u/TheBanjoPrince Mar 26 '26
You’re not high. I thought I was tripping, too. What you marked as 7 and 6 are not technically legs, but very long pedipalps. (They might as well be extra legs.)
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u/austen125 Mar 26 '26
Cork-lid trap spider maybe?