#amaurobiidae — Public Fediverse posts

#Arachtober 30: a lovely female hacklemesh weaver (_Amaurobius cf. ferox_) out in the open one night, rare for them. They spend most of their time in crevices in retreats of fuzzy back-combed silk that extends some way outside, letting them sense prey passing too close. People typically encounter the mature males that go wandering in search of mates and inadvertently end up inside.

The family is closely related to the funnel-weavers (family Agelenidae).

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Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830)

Snapped a couple weeks ago and published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2r3xENP

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#Mosstodon × #DailySpiderPic, from a grotty underpass. Hacklemesh weavers (_Amaurobius ferox_) love these crevices in the bricks.

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#DailySpiderVid: luring a juvenile male hacklemesh weaver (_Amaurobius ferox_) out of its lair with an electric toothbrush with a feather glued on.

Shaky video as I was holding the phone in one hand and the toothbrush with the other! Also, bit of a jumpscare.

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Yesterday after the torrential rain I went to High Park hoping to find the _Cladonia_ again, but I got sidetracked and ended up at the other end of the park at a stone wall full of hacklemesh weavers (family Amaurobiidae).

However there were also other spiders—funnel weavers, I think, or else very funnel-weaver-like amaurobiids—and the small sheet-web weavers.

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