#amaurobiidae — Public Fediverse posts

#SpiderSunday: the crevices between the bricks under the railway bridge are well-populated with hacklemesh weavers (_Amaurobius ferox_) who can be coaxed out with an electric toothbrush. If you replace the toothbrush with your finger (#DontTryThisAtHome) they will sometimes, after some consideration, try biting the strange, un-bug-like thing. However they're not especially effective at it and it doesn't take much encouragement to get them to let go.

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A pókok eretnekpókok családja Magyarországon 6 fajjal képviselteti magát. Tekintsd át őket! https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/csalad/amaurobiidae/fajok #pókok #Araneae #eretnekpókok #Amaurobiidae #biodiverzitás #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

#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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A nap ízeltlábúja a pókok eretnekpókok családjába tartozó nagy eretnekpók - Amaurobius ferox https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/nagy-eretnekpok/talalatok #nagyEretnekpók #AmaurobiusFerox #eretnekpókok #Amaurobiidae #pókok #Araneae #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

#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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#Arachtober 8: a hacklemesh weaver (_Amaurobius ferox_) emerges from its lair in a seriously grimy underpass.

This family of spiders is very closely related to the Agelenidae—there are many species that have moved from one to the other and vice versa over the years—but they are (generally?) cribellate, that is, they make a kind of fuzzy silk.

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The spiders can be easily lured out with the vibrations of a sonic toothbrush. I have one with a feather glued to the end of it instead of a brush head. The hacklemesh weavers will eagerly bite on to it and try to drag it back into their retreats if I don't take it away fast enough.

Some arachnologists, like @ibycter, go with zip ties on their toothbrushes instead. Others have even used vibrators. In Australia, some large ground-dwelling spiders can be attracted by idling diesel 4-wheel-drive cars.

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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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When you lose the lens you need to photograph little arachnids, you've just got to go find bigger ones.

I used a sonic toothbrush with a feather taped to the end to lure hacklemesh weavers out from their silk-lined retreats in the railway underpass.

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