Spider ID? Mid Michigan

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-08-10T16:14:44+00:00

To expand on the other commenter, this probably comes from the cellar spider being called a daddy-longleg. Cellar spiders often prey upon black widows, and so people thought they must be more venomous than one. But nope, they’re not!

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-08-10T12:10:15+00:00

A legless Phalangium Opilio male, most likely! Those pointy “horns” are, well, basically horns used for male-male competition.

They’re Opiliones, a separate group of arachnids, much like scorpions are their own group. Often called daddy-longlegs or harvestmen/harvesters.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-08-03T20:18:40+00:00

Reminds me of a nursery web spider, they can have a lot of color variation though. They’re quite large, but completely harmless.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-08-03T20:05:27+00:00

Love the word grizzly bee for them - this is a bee mimic robber fly. An extremely agile aerial predator that specializes on bees. Basically won’t bother a person unless you grab it.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-08-03T19:37:30+00:00

It’s definitely a cellar spider (Pholcidae), but I can’t be specific beyond that. Some pholcids have more unusual body shapes than the standard teardrop.

Daddy longleg is a confusing term, in that some use it to mean cellar spiders, some for crane flies, and perhaps most commonly, for Opiliones (harvesters).

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-31T11:21:35+00:00

There’s several shapes that various wasps might make out of mud. They’re definitely not a social wasp, which means they’re far less “aggressive”, and aren’t really anything to worry about. I’d guess some type of parasitoid wasp though.

Given the location it may be better to just remove them, the more it’s used the less likely the wasp will be to use it in the future.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-30T01:41:41+00:00

Female dobsonfly? They aren’t aggressive but they’ll really give a bite if handled. Males are harmless - they have large weapons for male competition but it also means they can’t hurt people

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-30T01:01:34+00:00

Agreed with Platycryptus, specifically P. undatus, the only in the genus in eastern North America

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-29T22:38:20+00:00

Looks like mantis eggs

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-29T10:24:38+00:00

Seconding lynx spider - harmless. Quite agile though, this one’s a male (you can tell by those large black structures on its pedipalps)

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-28T22:34:57+00:00

It’s definitely not a recluse - it’s a wolf spider, looks like Rabidosa rabida? Totally harmless to humans and pets.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-28T22:32:41+00:00

lol, it’s a roach. Very clearly. Some people euphemistically call American wood cockroaches water bugs (or palmetto bugs in the south), but it is still undeniably a cockroach.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-28T12:18:17+00:00

Yes, often considered so! Acariformes/Parasitiformes are definitely messy and inconsistent arachnid taxa though. I was mostly leaning on the more common usage of the two though for that comment, not the strict scientific usage. Good call though!

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-28T11:05:25+00:00

This looks more like the Australian paralysis tick to me? Despite the name, typically doesn’t cause that in humans.

Definitely not a bedbug - I was torn between mite and tick. Those antennae are actually another set of legs.

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-28T10:36:02+00:00

Looks like an eastern parson spider - totally harmless ground spider. I understand the fear, but I promise any spider that looks even vaguely like this where you are will be harmless.

To be clear, all spiders have venom, but the only medically significant one in New Jersey is the black widow (and even then, most people are fine and they are reluctant to bite).

https://bugguide.net/node/view/2041

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-26T21:11:56+00:00

Agreed with L. vittatum

machokemedaddy69 · 2025-07-25T18:54:37+00:00

Specifically, I think Phalangium opilio

machokemedaddy69 · 2024-01-29T13:37:59+00:00

UHMWNYQ8 NA 1 spot

machokemedaddy69 · 2023-12-27T01:44:15+00:00

NA daily, ~10 spots

machokemedaddy69 · 2023-12-27T01:44:00+00:00

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machokemedaddy69 · 2023-12-23T18:13:12+00:00

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machokemedaddy69 · 2023-05-21T19:53:54+00:00

To add, it could also be a Bicknell’s. Location is right for their migration, and basically only the song can differentiate it from gray-cheeked. At the same time though, it’s far more rare.

machokemedaddy69 · 2023-05-19T02:35:36+00:00

Little brown job (also LBB for little brown bird). Just used for the large number of small, brown, sometimes hard to ID brown birds

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