#arachnids — Public Fediverse posts

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

A Black and yellow garden spider that caught a Common bumble bee.

There are small holes in the silk from several bites.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #bee #bees #web

While working in the garden, I lift some leaves and see what looks like a trap spider’s nest. It occurs to me to use a smartphone stethoscope—the kind we use to check pipes and drains—to see if anyone’s home… And sure enough, at the end of the silk-lined tunnel, I see some little legs peeking out. I’m sorry, Ms. Spider, for giving you a scare.
iPhone 17 Pro + stethoscope,
Alicante. Spain.

Trabajando en el jardín levanto unas hojas y veo lo que parece el nido de una araña trampera. Se me ocurre usar un estetoscopio para smartphone que usamos para comprobar tuberías y desagües para ver si hay alguien en casa… Y si, al fondo del túnel recubierto de seda veo aparecer unas patitas. Disculpe Señora Araña por el susto.

Als ich im Garten arbeite, hebe ich ein paar Blätter an und entdecke etwas, das wie das Nest einer Fangspinne aussieht. Da kommt mir die Idee, ein Smartphone-Stethoskop zu benutzen, mit dem wir normalerweise Rohre und Abflüsse überprüfen, um zu sehen, ob jemand zu Hause ist … Und tatsächlich, am Ende des mit Seide ausgekleideten Tunnels sehe ich ein paar kleine Beinchen hervorkommen. Entschuldigen Sie bitte, Frau Spinne, dass ich Sie erschreckt habe.

#macro #insects #nature #shotonmobile #arachnids #spider

Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-event.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

Acantholycosa sp.

#Spider #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Arachnid #Arachnids #Spiders #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

This absolute unit had set up shop right above the back door, I included the recessed ceiling light for scale (the photo still doesn't do it justice, the light is smaller than the spider 😭😭😭)

My husband managed to safely remove it and release it in the backyard in a spot where there should be plenty to eat. I'll bet this guy eats mice. 😩

#gianthousespider #absoluteunit #EndBoss #spiders #huisspin #arachnids #arachnophobia #donotwant #aaaaaaah #pleasegetitawayfromme #imscared

A Spined micrathena being lovely

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

“ #Mites & #spiders are #arachnids and they eat each other, they also have toxins in their #venom that target each other. Spider venom #peptides "organic" way of killing mites doesn't accumulate in the food chain; doesn't kill the farmer or the beekeeper or any pets — it's selective to the #varroa mite," Dr Herzig said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-02/spider-venom-varroa-mite-research-honey-bees/106862586

(Note 1,700 native bee species have a very different biology from European honeybees.
https://www.aussiebee.com.au/varroa-mite-crisis.html )

#honeybees #Science

From 2025

World's biggest spiderweb home to more than 110,000 spiders discovered on the Albanian-Greek border

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/11/07/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-home-to-more-than-110000-spiders-discovered-on-the-albanian-greek

#News #spiders #arachnophobia #arachnophilia #arachnids 🕷️ 🕸️

Note to self: when you think you’ve dropped your pen between two lounge chairs and a quick look shows something dark in the shadows, do NOT reach your hand down there to pick it up!

Fortunately for my nerves it was a dead huntsman, but it was a major creep out nonetheless. Could have been worse, right? We’ve had funnelwebs in the house before. #arachnids #arachnophobia #spiders #straya #australia

It's not a scorpion, it's a tiny Dactylochelifer latreillei, just 2 mm long. This tailless pseudoscorpion is so small it feeds on mites, ants, and the like.
iPhone 15 Pro +lens for close focusing.
Spain. Alicante, late August.

No es un escorpión, es un diminuto Dactylochelifer latreillei de apenas 2 mm. Este Pseudo-escorpion sin cola es tan pequeño que se alimenta de ácaros, hormigas, etc…

Das ist kein Skorpion, sondern ein winziger Dactylochelifer latreillei, gerade mal 2 mm groß. Dieser schwanzlose Pseudoskorpion ist so klein, dass er sich von Milben, Ameisen und so weiter ernährt.

#macro #macrophotography
#insects #animals #nature
#shotonmobile #shotoniphone
#arachnids

#PseudoscorpionPsaturday, why not.

#bugstodon #arachnids #pseudoscorpions • #Arachnida #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae

#Arachtober 2: I wonder how long I can go without posting a spider? This is a pseudoscorpion from my yard. These bizarre-looking but harmless arachnids live all over the world, but unless you're looking for them you might never see them. They live in caves and under rocks and leaf litter and tree bark and such, and the largest in the world is only about a centimetre long.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions • #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae

Happy #PseudoscorpionPsaturday! Flipped over a random piece of wood in the garden mulch, found this critter. The green is just reflected from the green table I put the piece of wood on, but I think it makes it look like some fantasy creature from D&D or a @MichaelWhelan cover.

#bugstodon #InverteFest #arachnids #pseudoscorpions • #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae

Some still photos of the pseudoscorpion grooming as well. The chelicerae remind me of those of Solifugae, on a much tinier scale, in the way they flex side-to-side.

#bugstodon #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae

Pseudoscorpion Psaturday! Found this healthy-sized cthoniid (I think) under a rock in the garden and watched it clean its claws with its chelicerae, which also have claws.

If you didn't know about this common and widespread but rarely observed order of arachnids, now you do! https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/pseudoscorpiones/

#bugstodon #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae

Good lake visit today

1. Scenery
2. The _Bryobia_ clover mites are loving the warm weather.
3. A linyphiid, I think? Else a theridiid?
4. A slow-moving (for once) lithobiomorph centipede.

#DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #SpidersOfMastodon #Mitestodon #bugstodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #centipedes #Araneae #Acari #Myriapoda

bugs of Scarborough Civic Centre!!

1. tiny fierce crab spider in aster
2. worst bumblebee pic
3. the sedums were full of whirligig mites
4. aphids on those tall plants that look kind of like dandelions but, unlike dandelions, are always covered in aphids

#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #bugstodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #insects #bees #aphids #Araneae #Thomisidae #Acari #Anystidae #Hymenoptera #Apidae #Hemiptera #Aphididae #macro

Flipping rocks in the garden, had an unprecedented three pseudoscorpion day!

#bugstodon #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae(?) #macro

She's expecting!!!

This has legit made my day better

#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #arachnids #spiders #CrabSpiders #Araneae #Thomisidae #macro

A flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) has caught a bristle fly (Ectophasia crassipennis)

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #arachnida #arachnids #thomisidae #spidersunday #spiders #Misumena #MisumenaVatia #flies #EctophasiaCrassipennis #Krabbenspinne #Raupenfliege

A different type of crab spider (f. Thomisidae) catching a sweat bee on a small daisy.

#Thomisidae #arachnids #spiders #macro #ultramacro #daisy #nature #wildlife #randallsisland #nycparks #canonphotography #luminarneo

This a crab spider (family Thomisidae) of some sort. My experience with this is the members of this family hang out near flowers and nab pollinators when they land.

#crabspiders #Thomisidae #arachnids #spiders #macro #ultramacro #nature #wildlife #centralpark #nycparks #canonphotography #luminarneo

#Tmarus piger is a somewhat unusual crab #spider, as it sits on twigs or grass with its front legs outstretched. They feed mainly on ants.

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #arachnida #arachnids #thomisidae #tmaruspiger #spidersunday #spiders #crabspider #spinnen #krabbenspinne