diff --git a/docs/topics/signals.rst b/docs/topics/signals.rst
index d3875826b..6343f02f3 100644
--- a/docs/topics/signals.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/signals.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,24 @@ spider_idle
     :param spider: the spider which has gone idle
     :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object
 
+spider_error
+------------
+
+.. signal:: spider_error
+.. function:: spider_error(failure, response, spider)
+
+    Sent when a spider callback generates an error (ie. raises an exception).
+
+    :param failure: the exception raised as a Twisted `Failure`_ object
+    :type failure: `Failure`_ object
+
+    :param response: the response being processed when the exception was raised
+    :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object
+
+    :param spider: the spider which raised the exception
+    :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object
+
+
 request_received
 ----------------
 
@@ -241,3 +259,4 @@ response_downloaded
     :param spider: the spider for which the response is intended
     :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object
 
+.. _Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
diff --git a/scrapy/core/scraper.py b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
index 2104a728e..1550c344f 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/scraper.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class Scraper(object):
         assert isinstance(response, (Response, Failure))
 
         dfd = self._scrape2(response, request, spider) # returns spiders processed output
-        dfd.addErrback(self.handle_spider_error, request, spider)
+        dfd.addErrback(self.handle_spider_error, request, response, spider)
         dfd.addCallback(self.handle_spider_output, request, response, spider)
         return dfd
 
@@ -142,18 +142,20 @@ class Scraper(object):
         dfd.addCallbacks(request.callback or spider.parse, request.errback)
         return dfd.addCallback(iterate_spider_output)
 
-    def handle_spider_error(self, _failure, request, spider, propagated_failure=None):
+    def handle_spider_error(self, _failure, request, response, spider, propagated_failure=None):
         referer = request.headers.get('Referer', None)
         msg = "Spider error processing <%s> (referer: <%s>)" % \
             (request.url, referer)
         log.err(_failure, msg, spider=spider)
+        send_catch_log(signal=signals.spider_error, failure=_failure, response=response, \
+            spider=spider)
         stats.inc_value("spider_exceptions/%s" % _failure.value.__class__.__name__, \
             spider=spider)
 
     def handle_spider_output(self, result, request, response, spider):
         if not result:
             return defer_succeed(None)
-        it = iter_errback(result, self.handle_spider_error, request, spider)
+        it = iter_errback(result, self.handle_spider_error, request, response, spider)
         dfd = parallel(it, self.concurrent_items,
             self._process_spidermw_output, request, response, spider)
         return dfd
diff --git a/scrapy/signals.py b/scrapy/signals.py
index e907e5fcb..c08a11382 100644
--- a/scrapy/signals.py
+++ b/scrapy/signals.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ engine_stopped = object()
 spider_opened = object()
 spider_idle = object()
 spider_closed = object()
+spider_error = object()
 request_received = object()
 response_received = object()
 response_downloaded = object()