# What is a dock spider?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 16, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-dock-spider/19680 "2000-05-16T17:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-dock-spider/19680/1 "2000-05-16T17:57:36Z")
I am trying to find out what kind of spider a “dock spider” is. A search for “dock spider” turned up nothing. these are huge, biting spiders that hang out around lakes (docks, rocks on the shore etc). I have no pics to offer. Any thoughts?? ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-dock-spider/19680/2 "2000-05-16T18:08:28Z")
[http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dbarker/spider/spid01.htm](http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dbarker/spider/spid01.htm) Actually, I thought it would turn out to be a term for those loading crane contraptions. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-dock-spider/19680/3 "2000-05-16T18:13:48Z")
Hmmm. Hey Mr. moderator, why don’t you report a bug to vbulletin regarding their automated URL parsing. That link DOES work, and should have been picked up. Let’s try again: [http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dbarker/spider/spid01.htm](http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dbarker/spider/spid01.htm) If this is OK, it doesn’t like it as the first line.