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By adamg - 9/25/24 - 8:53 pm

NBC Boston reports a yellow-striped Joro jumping spider, which could grow to the size of a human hand, has been spotted on Mt. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, near the Common. The station sent out a fearless reporting team, which managed to get out a dispatch: Read more.

By adamg - 11/7/15 - 10:18 am

Patty asks:

Anyone able to identify this spider that built a web across my front window? Should I move?

By adamg - 10/16/10 - 11:07 am

Jef Taylor shows us a Phiddippus audax:

I don't pick favorites very often, but this is a very charismatic spider. Jumping spiders in general, with their big forward-facing eyes and little forelimb gestures, are pretty endearing. They are some of the only spiders that really seem to acknowledge humans, turning to face us when approached, putting up those front legs in a threatening manner, and then jumping away (or sometimes toward us) at the last moment.

By adamg - 5/31/06 - 4:48 pm

Charlotte's Web or Arachnophobia? You decide.

By adamg - 9/20/05 - 9:45 am

Janet posts a photo of a giant spider web in her yard.

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