I came across this guy climbing up a sliding door in my bedroom. I don’t know what type of spider it is and despite fairly extensive searching for spiders of New York State I’ve not so far been able to find out. The closest resemblance I’ve found is to a Tan Jumping Spider. However, I thought that jumping spiders were smaller than this. I think if I could have seen it from the front I could have determined if it was indeed a jumping spider, but regrettably I couldn’t because it scampered off rather quickly.

UPDATE: I bumped into a picture today of a spider that looks very much like this one so I now believe that this is a small Wolf Spider (they can grow to over 2 inches!). Apparently they’re the most common spider species in the world and are not dangerous to people.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f2.8 Macro lens