BWCA Spider identification Boundary Waters Listening Point

Chat Rooms (0 Chatting) | Search | Login/Join

* BWCA is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Boundary Waters Quetico Forum

Listening Point - General Discussion

Spider identification

Forum Sponsor

Author

Text

QuietSolo

10/03/2024 07:49PM

Anyone know what this is? I saw it up in a red pine on Basswood while searching the site for safest place to be in that gale force wind Monday night. The safest place was definitely not with this spider lol

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

Pinetree

10/03/2024 08:25PM

MN spider ID

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

QuietSolo

10/03/2024 08:35PM

Checked that site and U of MN before posting. Nothing looks like a great match. Tough too with bright headlamp and the angle. Looks like 1 big glowing eye! But I'm guessing it's not. Always interesting out there.

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

Minnesotian

10/04/2024 07:10AM

Hard to tell from the picture, but I would lean toward it being a fishing spider. They are big fans of water, can get pretty big, and are typically found when you least expect them causing a jolt to the nerves.

https://apps.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/insect/general-curiosity-insects/relatives/large/fishingspider.html

https://extension.umn.edu/insect-relatives/spiders#hunting-spiders-%28do-not-build-webs%29-52361

"It is more important to live for the possibilities that lie ahead than to die in despair over what has been lost." -Barry Lopez

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

Argo

10/04/2024 07:25AM

We call them dock spiders. If submersed they will instantly form an air bubble dome. Pretty cool. They can also easily run across the water surface.

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

QuietSolo

10/04/2024 07:30AM

The fishing spider was my closest guess. Thanks!

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

QuietSolo

10/04/2024 07:31AM

Argo: "We call them dock spiders. If submersed they will instantly form an air bubble dome. Pretty cool. They can also easily run across the water surface. "

Interesting. I remember seeing a massive spider while swimming early morning off a dock on Beatrice near Side Lake. I wasn't sure if wolf and dock were the same. Sounds like fishing and dock are the same.

Print Top Bottom Previous Next

okinaw55

10/04/2024 04:12PM

QuietSolo: "
Argo: "We call them dock spiders. If submersed they will instantly form an air bubble dome. Pretty cool. They can also easily run across the water surface. "

Interesting. I remember seeing a massive spider while swimming early morning off a dock on Beatrice near Side Lake. I wasn't sure if wolf and dock were the same. Sounds like fishing and dock are the same."

That campground on that lake is pretty nice. Seldom anyone there as its technically overflow for McCarthy State Park.

Print Top Bottom Previous Next