Spider came with crickets from the pet store - Thanatus

More sightings of similar spiders in cricket shipments

As it turns out, I have also found a very similar spider in a cricket shipment, as has this person, who found an even larger one. It looks to me as if at least one major cricket breeder has an established population of these spiders in their rearing cages.

… Tim Eisele, 14 December, 2010 - 7:20am

crab spider in cricket shipment

Very interesting. Thanks for those links.

… Lynette Elliott, 14 December, 2010 - 9:20am

Moved

Moved from Io Moth.

… john and jane balaban, 12 March, 2010 - 3:09pm

Moved

Moved from Thanatus.

… john and jane balaban, 12 March, 2010 - 3:07pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Lynette Elliott, 22 January, 2010 - 11:26pm

Feeder crickets

Do pet stores raise their own feeder crickets or do some get them from suppliers? Just wondering if the spider may have come from some state other than California. Maybe even Mexico for all I know?

… John R. Maxwell, 21 January, 2010 - 9:46am

Data fields

I think I see where you're going with this... (to delete the data fields or not). There are suppliers, like Fluker's where I get my crickets, and then there are pet stores who try to breed and rear their own. But either way, it would be difficult to be absolutely sure of where it came from. So I guess it might be best to delete the location data field... but whatever happens to the data for this gal, I think I can say with some amount of certainty that this is a 'north of Mexico' spider, just fyi.

… Mandy Howe, 21 January, 2010 - 11:41am

Looks a lot like a Thanatus sp.

Of the philodromidae family.

… Mandy Howe, 20 January, 2010 - 10:57pm

Thanks!

… Peter Bryant, 21 January, 2010 - 7:31am

No problemo!

I love spiders and am equally fond of identifying them. :)

… Mandy Howe, 21 January, 2010 - 9:37am