I saw this little guy on my fire pit at home. I'm pretty convinced it's a spider, but there were also a lot of ants nearby, and the automatic identification is telling me it's an ant, but I'm not sure what it is.
I was walking through hemlock/white pine woods when the pungent musty smell of a porcupine stopped me in my tracks. I have smelled it on dead porcupines and mildly in dens, but never strong in open woods. I looked up and it was 15-20 right over my head. The strong odor was in an area only about 10 ft in diameter. Light but noticeable odor was in an area roughly 20 ft in diameter.