Spider Identification - Our Mission

Spider Identification.org provides simple identification guides on common spiders seen throughout North America. Our goal is to properly inform the general public on various spider topics through easy to read guides and articles. At the same time, Spider Identification.org is continously growing a database of submitted pictures provided by users like you. So if you have ever taken a picture of a spider, please send it to us so we can share this data with future visitors.

Submit a Picture

Need help identifying a spider seen in your house?
Send us your picture! We will post your spider picture online for the world to see and help identify. Pictures of spiders that have not been identified will be posted to the 'identify my spider' section. Your picture will be showcased until we have received a number of identification submissions. Once we feel this picture has been positively identified, we will assign it to the identified spider's page. Credit will be given to the person who submitted the picture, and to the first person to properly identify it.

Help Identify Spiders

Are you an entomologist or just a general fan of spiders?
Then you can help us identify our picture submissions. If you are the first one to accurately identify one of the submitted spiders, we will give you credit and list your name, location, and blog/website.

Latest Updates

December 20, 2007

So I apologize for the lack of updates lately. I have been pretty busy with other work and haven't had time to write out some more identification guides. Expect new guides to be available starting in January. We want to have a lot of information online before spring. As soon as the warm months are back, the desire for spider information will begin to grow before it peaks in the late summer / early fall. Also, we are going to re-organize our 'help identify' section. This will be split into two parts: the standard section displaying images to be identified, and the low-quality section for images we receive that will be much harder to identify.

November 29, 2007

Still working on the spiny backed orb weaver guide. Robert Romero from California sent us a great image of a spider that needs to be identified. Check it out in our help identify section.

November 26, 2007

Sorry for the delay in updates, we were quite busy during the week of Thanksgiving. We have added a new picture of a probable huntsman spider submitted by Bryan from Florida.

November 14, 2007

The North American banana spider has been added. The official common name given is the golden silk orb weaver. However, we decided to label it as a banana spider since this is the more common name given by everyday people in North America.

We had some complaints regarding our font being too hard to read. So...the font style has been globally changed. We made it 1 pixel larger, and switched it to Verdana.

November 9, 2007

We ran across a spider blog today called "Spider Joe". This is actually the first spider blog we have ever seen. Joe's passion towards teaching others about spiders is demonstrated in his writing and imagery. We hope you enjoy his site, it is updated regularly (always a good sign when looking for a quality blog).

November 8, 2007

Identification guide for the green lynx spider has been added. This is a harmless spider in comparison to the first two spiders featured. Included with the initial launch of this spider's profile are 4 high resolution images to aid in proper identification. As always, if you have pictures of your own, please send them our way.

November 7, 2007

The most important part of this site is to aid everyday people (non-entomologists) with their spider identification needs. We have changed the format of how our identification guides present information. Expect for this to be continually refined as our designers come up with new presentation ideas.

November 6, 2007

The black widow spider profile has been added. We will be refining the identification guide to include differences seen between the western, northern, and southern black widows. Expect to see pages on the brown and red widows soon!

November 1, 2007

Spider Identification.org launches! We opened our doors to feature the brown recluse spider, one of the most poisonous spiders in the United States. We have also posted an orb weaver spider that needs to be further identified.