About 1.5 to 2 inches across. Found in Santa Cruz, CA

Edit: Thanks all for your responses!

    • Hucklebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, thought this too. Identified a similair looking spider with an app once.

      Big nope vibes.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          The bite like wolfies? Because I had one hit me like when bee sting when I scared her up.

          • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            Yeah, probably. A bee sting is a pretty good comparison for spider bites in general, though with a very low chance of alergic reaction compared to bees or wasps. And that’s really where the danger is.

            Otherwise it will just hurt for a bit and then go away.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, that was my assumption as well from some minor googling but wanted to get another pair (or 3) of eyes on it

  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    I just got a reply back from a buddy that is an actual publish arachnologist and he confirms it’s Zoropsidae (the false wolf spiders, and the family including the widley suggested Titiotus).

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, I also thought it was a wolf or false wolf as well from some minor googling. I appreciate you reaching out to your friend for the expert opinion!

    • threelonmusketeersEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Thanks for sharing this! I quite enjoyed it.

      The choice to

      show spoiler

      muffle the microphone when the spider covered its head with sand

      was a brilliant touch.

      P.S. I wish Lemmy supported >!inline spoilers!<. The current spoiler markdown is pretty clunky.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Arthropods aren’t my forte, and its hard to judge without a sense of scale and/or a look at the eye layout. So someone more knowledgeable should correct me. That said, it I looks to me like a Titiotus. Various species of which call California home.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, I didn’t realize how varied eye layouts were in spiders otherwise I would have tried for a better pic from another angle. Hoped the rough size estimate would be sufficent but I understand how a picture with a banana (or similar) for scale would be more helpful. Appreciate the response and it seems the crowd has spoken – false wolf spider! (or perhaps regular wolf spider but either way is good enough for me)

      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        or perhaps regular wolf spider

        Nope, easily exluded by what you can see in the pictures, by the eyes. The entire cephalothorax region is wrong for a wolf spider. I was first stuck on Gnaphosidae.

        And your picture was brilliant. You won’t believe the shitty pictures some people expect you to give an ID from. And you gave a proper size (though we prefere body lenght over leg span and centimetres) and a location.

        This post was perfect. Even got the “oh a brown spider, must be a brown recluse” comment …

        Join [email protected] maybe?

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Your size description was good, I’m just terrible at imagining sizes well. But I get why getting it to stand next to a coin or something for scale was not an option. I love spiders, but they don’t take direction.

    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
      191·
      6 months ago

      Definitely not.

      Don’t ID medical significant spiders if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
        101·
        6 months ago

        I understand it’s very much a meme. But a bad one. And without any indicators that it’s not a serious answer it should just be treated as a wrong answer.

        When someone honestly requests and ID these kinds of jokes are also just not appropriate in general. Most people that find spiders aren’t in on them.

        • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          65·
          6 months ago

          Why on earth are you so pissy at me for? I didn’t make the joke, I literally told them this probably isn’t a place where it’d be appreciated

          • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
            91·
            6 months ago

            I wasn’t trying to come across as “pissy”. But trying to explain the “joke” you referenced. And yes, I guess explaining a joke always kind of makes you sound like a dick.

            Nothing personal. But spider IDs are serious business.