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QuietSolo	10/04/2024 07:30AM   The fishing spider was my closest guess. Thanks!
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
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.
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
Pinetree	10/03/2024 08:25PM   MN spider ID
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.
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.
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.