There is a fairly diverse bunch of spiders in the Yukon, too, but I don't recall seeing one like this around Whitehorse before - not that I'm an expert on Yukon arachnids.
Eight legs on a two-by-four.
I have a friend who used to work in a grocery store and would pull live black widow spiders out of banana boxes. I suspect that this beauty of a beast may have traveled north in a shipment of building supplies (more on that another time), but that's only a guess. Are there any arachnologists out there who can set me straight?
Not a HUGE spider, but it's big enough and hairy enough to tickle if it were to climb up your pants.
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For the record, the "if it were to climb up your pants" wasn't intentional - it was a formatting glitch.
I decided to leave it that way to get all the arachnophobes out there squirming.
Oh that is a big spider! You are right- there are heaps of spiders on the tundra. I was amazed at how many would run across you when sitting there picking berries.
No idea on your pretty one there though!
Found your blog while trying to identify a spider I just found on the shore of Marsh Lake. Here is a link to the photo I took, https://flic.kr/p/HFhr3V. I suspect that is is some kind of Wolf Spider but I am just guessing.
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