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  1. This beautiful little wolf spider lives on our garden table and visits whenever we sit there 🥰
    #spider
    #arachnid

  2. This beautiful little wolf spider lives on our garden table and visits whenever we sit there 🥰
    #spider
    #arachnid

  3. This beautiful little wolf spider lives on our garden table and visits whenever we sit there 🥰
    #spider
    #arachnid

  4. This beautiful little wolf spider lives on our garden table and visits whenever we sit there 🥰
    #spider
    #arachnid

  5. This beautiful little wolf spider lives on our garden table and visits whenever we sit there 🥰
    #spider
    #arachnid

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕷️🕸️ Researchers from #Macquarie University discovered a new ballista #spider species in #Queensland’s #CapeYork #rainforest that builds a spring-loaded web snare targeting green tree #ants.

    When an ant bites the cone, tension lines fire it into the web at 1,367 m/s² – roughly 140 G – making this the most power-dense biological catapult known. The spider’s use of pheromone-mimicking silk represents a #hunting strategy not seen before in any #arachnid.

    👉 sciencealert.com/scientists-di

    #ballista #australia #biology #biomechanics #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #predator

  7. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕷️🕸️ Researchers from #Macquarie University discovered a new ballista #spider species in #Queensland’s #CapeYork #rainforest that builds a spring-loaded web snare targeting green tree #ants.

    When an ant bites the cone, tension lines fire it into the web at 1,367 m/s² – roughly 140 G – making this the most power-dense biological catapult known. The spider’s use of pheromone-mimicking silk represents a #hunting strategy not seen before in any #arachnid.

    👉 sciencealert.com/scientists-di

    #ballista #australia #biology #biomechanics #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #predator

  8. In honor of the Opiliones that years ago entered the kitchen & climbed the counter - to eat Schnitzel crumbs! It rotated a crumb like a cob of corn.

    #arachnid #opiliones #harvestman #schnitzel #germanartists #germanart #art #mastoart #fediart

  9. For International Rock Flipping Day, here's an immature western black widow (Latrodectus hesperus, Theridiidae). Likely a female (pedipalps seem small) but I gather palpal bulbs might not appear on males until a later molt. So not sure. Found under a rock in Madras, Oregon, USA. #spider #arachnid #rock #nature #GenderReveal