True Spiders Survive Freezing Weather?

[Tcollector]

I allways thought that any kind of spider can die of FREEZING COLD WEATHER. Anyway I went out into my garadge to get a table. Well on that table was a black spider that was walking and everything. The only thing that seemed wrong with him is being sluggish. I must be slow or something lol but can true spiders stay out in the cold like that without being harmed?

[crpy]

My D. okeefinokensis is carring an egg sac right now lol, she has survived 38-40 temps

[What]

I collected a L. variolus the Thanksgiving of '07 in Virginia, where the temps were near freezing in the middle of the night. I have heard from a couple others that Latros can and will be on the hunt in freezing temps... soo yeah, they can survive it. :)

[cjm1991]

One of my uncles works in Anheuser Busch and he often spots brown recluse in the storing area for beer that was just made where its 31* F. I was also amazed at this.

[Elytra and Antenna]

The river orb weavers survive the winter around here and it gets below -20F.

[Widowman10]

I have heard from a couple others that Latros can and will be on the hunt in freezing temps

yep. found them catching and webbing up prey at a little lower than 30F. they need a cooler period as well, they do better.

[buthus]

Just got back from Vegas and i did do a bit of garbage turning in my fav empty development lot ...sub freezing night time temps. Was searching for loxosceles mostly...and found them. Takes a good eye in the cold temps cause you cant rely on movement to catch your eye ...spidies are a bit sluggish when exposed to those temps. Found a single immature hesperus that I kept ...seems like when you find these rarer subs/young during the cold months...they turn out huge and strong ...biggest hesps always come out of the winter months. No kuks or even any fresh kuk webbing ...dug in deep I suspect.