Do u no what spider this is?

Question

hi my partner found a spider at work yesterday, it is only small with a white body and 2 red zig zags going on its back it also has black dots in the red zig zags,could anybody tell me what spider this is and if it is harmful thanx

Answer 1

Learn to Id them yourself at -

http://bugguide.net/node/view/1954

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Pictures...

http://www.spideridentification.org/

Answer 2

Maybe a Crab Spider. I'm not sure whether any of them have black dots within the red pattern though, so this might not be the one he saw.

Here's a pic. and some info. about them:

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/...

Hope that helps.

Added:- If it's a Crab Spider, it's not harmful to humans.