Subject: More Spider Fungus?
Location: Milwaukee, WI
September 18, 2016 1:45 pm
Took this photo in the crypt area in the basement of the Cavalry Cemetery Chapel in Milwaukee, WI. A living spider is in the picture too as well as something else that is much more prominent. It reminded me of this: https://www.wired.com/2012/12/spider-building-spider/, but then I saw your posts and concluded that it was a living spider alongside a dead one overtaken by fungus (definitely dead because I touched it and, thank goodness, it didn’t move!). I wonder if the living one will soon suffer the same fate. Anyway, I thought you’d like another photo of this phenomena. Thanks for your great website!
Signature: Allison Jornlin
Dear Allison,
Thank you for submitting your image of a Cellar Spider infected with fungus. There has been quite a robust challenge to our stand that these Fungus Riddled Spiders are generally dead.
We have these in NE Pa. No one has an answer.
This is a concern for me. If they r dead and it’s just a fungus. What kind of fungus is this n how do you get rid of it.
I have seen these in a 1/2 crawl space basement.
The ones I seen were very much alive
This is a concern for me. If they r dead and it’s just a fungus. What kind of fungus is this n how do you get rid of it.
I have seen these in a 1/2 crawl space basement.
The ones I seen were very much alive
I see two of them hanging from under my porch just outside the cellar of my very old barn garage.