Subject: Spider found in Walmart bananas Geographic location of the bug: New Jersey Date: 01/09/2019 Time: 11:43 AM EDT Your letter to the bugman: A friend found this spider in the bananas they were stocking on a local Walmart. My reverse image search says wolf spider. Facebook comment says tarantula. Can you provide some clarification … Read more
Subject: ?? a wolf spider Geographic location of the bug: Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa Date: 10/08/2018 Time: 07:27 AM EDT Your letter to the bugman: I found you on the website and wonder if you might help? I saw this spider in a neighbour’s garden. It was on the gate staying very quiet and … Read more
Subject: Is that spider with 6 legs ? Geographic location of the bug: Yemen Date: 06/10/2018 Time: 11:07 PM EDT Your letter to the bugman: I read that all spiders has 8 legs This one has 6 legs and it was the biggest one i have seen . it was very fast when moving . … Read more
Subject: What is it? Geographic location of the bug: Cavite, Philippines Date: 01/18/2018 Time: 10:34 AM EDT Your letter to the bugman: Is this spider dangerous? How you want your letter signed: Perry Dear Perry, This is a male Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria, a species that has expanded its range greatly due to the cultivation … Read more
Subject: Big Spider Geographic location of the bug: Peru, Rainforest Lodge around 20km northeast of Iquitos at Amazon river Date: 01/05/2018 Time: 05:51 AM EDT I think that spider looks like the Australian Huntsman spiders. Are these also common in south America? Or is it only to me looking similar? This one was maybe 15cm … Read more
Subject: spider Geographic location of the bug: south africa Date: 11/13/2017 Time: 03:51 AM EDT He is stuck in our office, he has a web full of spider babies How you want your letter signed — Please help This looks to us like a Rain Spider, Palystes castaneus. Here is a similar looking individual posted … Read more