# Help ID this spider
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 11, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915 "2018-06-11T21:52:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/1 "2018-06-11T21:52:20Z")
A picture was posted on FB. Taken in Tennessee. What is the name of this [pretty spider?](https://imgur.com/gallery/TmLexWE) Thanks!
StG
---
### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/2 "2018-06-11T22:19:58Z")
I don’t think it’s a spider.
---
### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/3 "2018-06-11T22:21:26Z")
^ Me, neither, but I’m too squicked out from scanning spider pics for the last 20 minutes to be much help; you’re on your own. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
---
### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/4 "2018-06-11T22:22:25Z")
I guess those front legs could be antennae.
StG
---
### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/5 "2018-06-11T22:22:47Z")
Leaf-footed bug?
[http://www.knowyourinsects.org/Hemiptera1.html](http://www.knowyourinsects.org/Hemiptera1.html)
Scroll down.
---
### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/6 "2018-06-11T22:24:53Z")
GIANT leaf-footed bug–4th row down in the middle.
Squick.
---
### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/7 "2018-06-11T22:27:13Z")
Why do I always click the links? I know I hate myself, but do I really think I deserve to be creeped the hell out? Apparently, yes, I do.☹
---
### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/8 "2018-06-11T22:29:27Z")
_Someone_ has to buy all that brain bleach.
---
### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/9 "2018-06-11T22:34:18Z")
Thanks! Wow, that was fast. I think it’s sort of pretty - the back end looks like a lace mantilla.
StG
---
### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/10 "2018-06-11T23:05:45Z")
It _wants_ you to think that, then POW!
---
### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/11 "2018-06-11T23:21:22Z")
Then POW…eggs in your brain.
---
### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/12 "2018-06-12T00:15:41Z")
Gorgeous bugs! Those mesquite bugs are cool.
---
### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/13 "2018-06-12T01:35:00Z")
Uggg. Why did I look?
---
### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/14 "2018-06-12T01:40:06Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#):
>
> Gorgeous bugs! Those mesquite bugs are cool.
And they give your char-broiled burgers a whole new flavor. 😃
Nice coloring; almost looks painted on.
---
### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/15 "2018-06-18T03:00:49Z")
I’m guessing the photo doesn’t do it justice.
---
### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/16 "2018-06-18T03:26:43Z")
It’s pretty. 🙂
---
### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/17 "2018-06-18T13:51:08Z")
Wow, that’s a cool-looking bug.
---
### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/18 "2018-06-18T14:57:11Z")
Oh, that’s Larry.
---
### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/19 "2018-06-18T23:48:35Z")
Pretty sure that’s a Morticia.
---
### Author:  [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-spider/815915/20 "2018-06-19T02:35:59Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
>
> It’s pretty. 🙂
Yah. Pretty creepy.