# Identify this spider, please?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 4, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175 "2019-08-04T14:08:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/1 "2019-08-04T14:08:35Z")
[This picture was taken in PA](https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/68275849_10220757058775119_2340604357088641024_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQn0mJCKahShislD37VGc20SYWUweT6F98HFYeUPwGkjca21PqM0oN1akP3_pDOaAxVB-3i9zGpgN-teSNd1spQ9&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=5c1d081e3fafae09b4e8e2d45a375880&oe=5DE0CF2C). The spider is actually eating a lantern fly. The neighbor who took the picture wants to know the type of spider. I’d like to know, too, as well as finding out if it’s possible to get more of them. Lantern flies are a real problem around here.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/2 "2019-08-04T14:15:54Z")
I think it’s some type of Jumping Spider.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/3 "2019-08-04T14:22:24Z")
Maybe a [bold jumper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_audax)? Though it does look fairly large for a jumping spider. The lanternfly is around 3/4" to 1" in size, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/4 "2019-08-04T14:27:17Z")
> [@scr4](#):
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> Maybe a [bold jumper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_audax)? Though it does look fairly large for a jumping spider. The lanternfly is around 3/4" to 1" in size, isn’t it?
About that size, yes.
Not sure if it’s the bold jumper. No image I’ve found of it so far has the orange legs or antenna or whatever those hairy orange lengths are.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/5 "2019-08-04T15:21:02Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> About that size, yes.
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> Not sure if it’s the bold jumper. No image I’ve found of it so far has the orange legs or antenna or whatever those hairy orange lengths are.
There are [some here](https://spiderid.com/spider/salticidae/phidippus/audax/pictures/) that do have orange-ish legs. Apparently orange colouring is more characteristic of juveniles. The abdomen marking does look the right shape. Not sue about size, though.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/6 "2019-08-04T18:37:41Z")
Oh, that’s Trevor.
I’d say [some](https://bugguide.net/node/view/123506) [Phiddipus](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1993/bgpage?from=0). Not [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_johnsoni) one (unless the distribution is wrong) but pretty similar.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/7 "2019-08-04T18:41:25Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> Not sure if it’s the bold jumper. No image I’ve found of it so far has the orange legs or antenna or whatever those hairy orange lengths are.
A spider has 8 legs and 2 [pedipalps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedipalp). I’m not seeing any orange appendages though - I think the orange thing across its abdomen is an orange pattern on the abdomen.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/8 "2019-08-04T18:42:18Z")
Neighbor says that the spider is not hairy, so I think that lets out the jumpers?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/9 "2019-08-04T18:53:39Z")
Your neighbor doesn’t know what they are talking about. The spider is very obviously very hairy _from the photo_.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/10 "2019-08-04T19:28:14Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Your neighbor doesn’t know what they are talking about. The spider is very obviously very hairy _from the photo_.
Yeah, I looked at it again and thought, “Wait a minute. That spider is too hairy.”
Dunno.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/11 "2019-08-04T19:36:49Z")
It’s a ‘scary’ spider. The worst kind!
Eeeeekkkkk!
I really dislike the hairy jumping ones!
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/12 "2019-08-05T23:14:04Z")
But hairy jumping spiders are the most fun of all the spiders! They jump, spin in place, and many have gorgeous iridescent fangs! I kept one little guy alive at my kitchen window for weeks. I’d feed him bits of raw ground beef dangled from a thread.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-spider-please/838175/13 "2019-08-06T00:48:01Z")
Jumping spiders are the kittens of the spider world.