Crab Spider
Jim Phillips sends this picture, with this single sentence of explanation: My wife & I were touring houses for sale; when she ran the water in the master bath, this spider came out of the faucet!
I am so envious. I wish my house had hot and cold running spiders.
This is a crab spider. You can tell be the flat, almost disk-shaped cephalothorax (the head/torso half of the body), and especially by the shape of the first and second pair of legs. Those legs are noticeably longer than the third and fourth pair of legs, but even more pronounced is how beefy those front four legs are. Look at the first segment, where they attach to the body. Those are legs that are built for grabbin’.
JFargo said,
May 17, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
That would be one house I would NOT be buying.
Unless they fumigated first. Specifically the water pipes.
Nick said,
May 19, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Is that *the* itsy bitsy spider?