Last year a diadem spider I named Ragnhild protected my tomatoes through the entirety of summer and autumn. This year it’s this little fella who’s taken that job! Anyone got any name suggestions? (NSFW in case of arachnophobia)

[Letsbedragonflies]

Last year a diadem spider I named Ragnhild protected my tomatoes through the entirety of summer and autumn. This year it’s this little fella who’s taken that job! Anyone got any name suggestions? (NSFW in case of arachnophobia)

Discussion

[ToastGhost18]

My immediate thought was “Wilbur.”

[init2winito1o2]

Why not Quelaag?

[SMDmonster]

We get those in our windows by light ever late summer/fall. The biggest gets names Shelob and the rest are her children.

[aggrocrow]

My partner and I are both afraid (but respectful) of spiders. When we moved to a plot in the middle of the woods in the butt end of nowhere, that became … a challenge. We’re determined not to spray anything more lethal than nematodes and neem oil, so the spiders have been great. We call the vast majority of them “Buddy” partially as an attempt to make them seem less scary.

Wolf spiders are all Shelob though, and they need to stay outside. There’s a gigantic Shelob who likes to sit on the front stoop every night, and she’s covered in babies so flashlights make her look like she’s covered in emeralds. It’d be pretty if I wasn’t so viscerally afraid of wolf spiders, haha. :X

[velvetelevator]

Rufus

[Moo_bi_moosehorns]

I always name my spiders something with Si like Sigrid, Sif, Siden, Siv, Sigbert

[TinyManatees]

There was a white house spider I found on my desk, just walking around and living her best life. I named her Barbara.

For a long while Barbara disappeared and then reappeared, or it was a whole new Barbara.

Either way I love her and I miss her when she’s gone. 🙁

[artotter]

I appreciate you so much for the NSFW blur

[Deterding]

Portia!

You have to read the book called Children of Time! Also a great read in terms of fundamentally rethinking the patriarchy.

[bhendibazar]

while this is a lovely image, i am saddened that the birds have died out so much that a single spider survived a tomato crop. (unless this was indoors)

[NeoAhsar]

I usually call all my spider buddies Sally for some reason 🙂

[BloodyBabyCorn]

I have tarantulas and my two favorite names are Phobos and Deimos, greek gods of Panic and Terror.

The other 4 are Lazlo, Nadja, Hera and Circe. :>

[etkat75]

Herman

[lmdrunk]

Uppy

[just_a_lowly_rat]

I’d like to put forward the name Arnold after the spider who used to guard a flower bush in my back yard