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Crab Spider
Crab spiders are characterized by their longer front legs that they use for capturing prey. They wait on flowers or other places and let their dinner come to them. They can also change their color to match the substrate color on which they wait.
Wolf Spider
Wolf spiders run after prey and catch it. They do not employ webs to entangle insects. They have one large eye on each lateral side of their head for better vision. Adults will carry spiderlings on their back for a while. Some of our largest spiders in Idaho are wolf spiders.
Barn Spider
Barn spiders are also called "cat-faced" spiders because of the markings on the top of the abdomen and the two protuberances above them. They are orb weaving spiders and spin a web of concentric circles of silk. Most human encounters in Idaho occur when we see the mature females in late summer.
Banded Argiope
Argiope (pronounced " are-guy-a-pee) spiders can be quite frightening as mature females can spread out to over two inches in their web. The orb webs are usually between two shrubs or similar plants and are quite large. You can encounter them in a variety of habitats that range from gardens to creek bottoms.
Jumping Spider
Jumping spiders can be identified by their dark hairy body, two large eyes on the front of the head, white spots on top of the abdomen, and generally iridescent mandibles. They are commonly found on walls and fences. They turn like crabs from side to side and catch prey by pouncing on them instead of using webs.
House spider
House spiders belong to the comb footed spiders as do black widow spiders. They make irregular shaped webs to snare prey and are commonly found in garages, under house eaves, wood piles, etc. They are not poisonous to people or pets.
Black widow spider adult female
Black widow spiders are recognized by most people. They have a characteristic body shape, are black, and have the hourglass markings on the bottom of the abdomen. They like basement window wells, eaves, wood piles and similar places to live. They can be common behind furniture in houses that is not moved often. Their bite can be quite painful. People live with them all the time and chances of being bitten are slim.
immature black widow Black widow immature female
Immature black widows are commonly encountered in the spring. As they mature they become black. The hourglass on the bottom of the abdomen is only spots or not present at this early stage.
Aggressive house spider (Male Hobo)
Many types of funnel-web spiders live around our houses. They wait at the back of the funnel for prey to become entangled in the web and then run out and finish of their prey. One funnel web spider, the aggressive house spider, is poisonous and has a bite like that of the brown recluse spider. They are commonly encountered in homes from mid-August until November.
Funnel web spider
Aggressive house spiders and other funnel-web spiders make these flat webs in shrubbery, basement window wells, wood piles, and voids under concrete.
Brown recluse adult female
Brown recluse spiders have not been positively identified in Idaho. They have only six eyes (most other spiders have 8) and a characteristic violin shaped mark on the top of the cephalothoraxes.
Club Spider
Club spiders, sometimes called yellow house spiders, are fairly common in Idaho. They are hunting spiders and can be found on the ground or on plants. Occasional bites have been reported from these spiders. The bite has symptoms like that of a bee sting.
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