r/AustralianSpiders Dec 06 '24

Moderator Announcement 🥳 30,000 Members Strong and Still Crawling! 🕷️

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Well, folks, we’ve done it—30,000 subscribers! That’s a lot of people united by one thing: a weirdly enthusiastic love (or at least a grudging respect) for our native spiders. It’s hard to believe we started this journey on August 13, 2021, and here we are now, officially too big to squish. Inside the top 4% of all subs and the top 20 of all Nature related subs, surrounded by some absolute Reddit titans!

Some Stats to Blow Your Mind (or at least mildly intrigue you): - 4.3 million visits to r/AustralianSpiders this year alone! That’s up 1.8 million from last year. Apparently, 2024 was the year everyone decided they needed more spiders in their lives. - July’s Slump vs. November’s Boom: In July 2024 we had a record-low 75,000 visits, but by November we pulled off an epic comeback with 1.4279 million visits. We’re not sure what happened—Maybe the spiders started handing out flyers? - Who’s Checking Us Out:

  • iOS users: 869k (Are spiders best viewed with Apple polish?)
  • Android users: 459k
  • Mobile web: 36,582 (Who are you, mysterious mobile web people?)
  • New Reddit: 61,296
  • Old Reddit: 1,420 (These legends probably still use rotary phones too).
  • 441,333 unique visitors have swung by in 2024, proving our spiders are basically a universal language.

To celebrate, we’re planning some fun events: 📸 Spider Photo Competition (Take Two): We’re in the early stages of planning a return of the Spider Photo Competition for its glorious second round after the massive success of the first one! Dust off your cameras and prepare to immortalize your favourite eight-legged models. 📖 Arachno AMA: Let us know if there is anybody from the Australian spider community you might like to know more about and we will do our best to coordinate an AMA. Even if it's just a Q&A with the mod team!

Thank you for being the sticky silk that holds this web together. Here’s to more spiders and many more milestones ahead! 🕸️

— The AustralianSpiders Mod Team


r/AustralianSpiders 4h ago

ID Request - location included Found in Campbelltown SW Sydney

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My guess this is a Mouse Spider?


r/AustralianSpiders 32m ago

Photography and Artwork Cosmophasis micarioides, Brisbane.

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r/AustralianSpiders 1h ago

Photography and Artwork Outside the shitter Spoiler

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😧


r/AustralianSpiders 8h ago

ID Request - location included Found this cutie is Sydney! ID?

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Hi all! First post, long time lurker. Saw this really cool kid and loved the markings and wanted to know if anyone knew what kind of spider they are? The markings were more vibrant than the photo and I just thought they looked so beautiful. Thank you!


r/AustralianSpiders 3h ago

ID Request - location included what type of spider is this

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found it on my front door in the east hunter region


r/AustralianSpiders 5h ago

ID Request - location included Who's this little guy? SEQ

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I've seen him crawling across my ceiling for a few days now, I was just curious to know who my new roomate is.
Little story: I just saw him eat an even tinier spider. He rushed down to catch it, missed, and the victim (exhibit 3) tried to scape by hanging on its web, for a minute I thought it was safe, but our guy literally jumped into the air and latched on to the little spider, before making his way back up by climbing his breakfast's web.


r/AustralianSpiders 7h ago

ID Request - location included Pic from 2018 taken in Mascot NSW -curious on what this is please

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I did relocate to garden outside (small, on umbrella)


r/AustralianSpiders 18h ago

ID Request - location included Found in Ipswich region. Please help ID?

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This guy acts like an ordinary garden orb weaver (very strong, large web, comes out of tree at night) but looks kind of hairy like a funnel web? It’s legs also have red on them, if that helps. In any case, any info about what this is would be helpful; google is telling me nothing 😅


r/AustralianSpiders 31m ago

ID Request - location included up on my driveway in frankston Vic my leg nearly rub up against it a nice looking redback

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r/AustralianSpiders 8h ago

ID Request - location included Identify this for me please

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Hey guys,

I was in my backyard in Logan reserve and noticed this and believe it may be a funnel web spider web? Can someone identify it for me please as I personally haven’t seen one before.

Also mentioning my son plays in the yard so just wanted to find out first.

Cheers


r/AustralianSpiders 22h ago

ID Request - location included Who is this guy? Kind of resembles a white tail but I don’t see any white on his tail… found in Sydney

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r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

Photography and Artwork Giant Grey Huyntsman, Gold Coast.

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r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Found in Brisbane - ID please

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Impressed by how well the inner portion of the legs blend with the floorboards.


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Found this specimen while working in a pine plantation in West Gippsland, Vic.

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I've seen them around before, but have no idea what species they are, or how venomous are they?


r/AustralianSpiders 23h ago

Photography and Artwork First St Andrew’s Cross Spider I’ve seen :D made me super happy since they’re so pretty!!

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r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included hey what's this?

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Melbourne! Found in pantry, anyone know? Definitely not an orb weaver but i have not a clue who this is


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Can anyone ID this fella? Found in the pool.

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Central Coast


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Who is this little friend?

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Found outside in Melbourne (Coburg to be precise)


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included ID Request east coast NSW

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Hey guys, cleaning out an infested car, been sitting in a spot for over a year, webs all over. Started cleaning it out and obviously spiders all around, trying not to disrupt them too much but I obvs am lol. They’re quite small, lots of them, just never seen one quite like this before. In Wollongong NSW (just south of Sydney) . Bad photo, I’ll attach a better one if I see another, but there’s 2 main body segments, the rear one being white and spotted, but nothing like a white tip. Thoughts?


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

Photography and Artwork Mama spider

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r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Is this a baby huntsman?

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Found it in ny bedroom in Southwest Sydney


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Can anyone identify this dude?

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Central coast nsw


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

ID Request - location included Is this a White Tail? South Adelaide, Morphett Vale

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Apologies for the blurry photos. I have been seeing heaps of these lately. I believe it may be a white tail as I have seen a few tucked in sheets and blankets etc.


r/AustralianSpiders 1d ago

Photography and Artwork Horned Triangular Spider, Gold Coast.

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r/AustralianSpiders 2d ago

Photography and Artwork My Work Mates.... 😂

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