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  1. Garden arachnids from today:

    - _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
    - male _Attulus fasciger_
    - couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
    - bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

    #SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

  2. Garden arachnids from today:

    - _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
    - male _Attulus fasciger_
    - couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
    - bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

    #SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

  3. Garden arachnids from today:

    - _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
    - male _Attulus fasciger_
    - couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
    - bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

    #SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

  4. Garden arachnids from today:

    - _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
    - male _Attulus fasciger_
    - couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
    - bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

    #SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

  5. Some arachnids from today:

    - young _Mangora_ orbweaver
    - _Naphrys pulex_ (I think?), considering some kind of hymenopteran
    - and most excitingly, Trombidiidae that aren't _Allothrombium_! I'm not quite sure whether they're both _Trombidium_, the first one is oddly not velvety at all but more rough-textured, and more flat than plump, like Smarididae if it were trombidiid-shaped. I am going to upload the pics to BugGuide to see what the experts say.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #Araneae #Araneidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Trombidiidae

  6. Some arachnids from today:

    - young _Mangora_ orbweaver
    - _Naphrys pulex_ (I think?), considering some kind of hymenopteran
    - and most excitingly, Trombidiidae that aren't _Allothrombium_! I'm not quite sure whether they're both _Trombidium_, the first one is oddly not velvety at all but more rough-textured, and more flat than plump, like Smarididae if it were trombidiid-shaped. I am going to upload the pics to BugGuide to see what the experts say.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #Araneae #Araneidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Trombidiidae

  7. Some arachnids from today:

    - young _Mangora_ orbweaver
    - _Naphrys pulex_ (I think?), considering some kind of hymenopteran
    - and most excitingly, Trombidiidae that aren't _Allothrombium_! I'm not quite sure whether they're both _Trombidium_, the first one is oddly not velvety at all but more rough-textured, and more flat than plump, like Smarididae if it were trombidiid-shaped. I am going to upload the pics to BugGuide to see what the experts say.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #Araneae #Araneidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Trombidiidae

  8. Some arachnids from today:

    - young _Mangora_ orbweaver
    - _Naphrys pulex_ (I think?), considering some kind of hymenopteran
    - and most excitingly, Trombidiidae that aren't _Allothrombium_! I'm not quite sure whether they're both _Trombidium_, the first one is oddly not velvety at all but more rough-textured, and more flat than plump, like Smarididae if it were trombidiid-shaped. I am going to upload the pics to BugGuide to see what the experts say.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #Araneae #Araneidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Parasitengona #Trombidiidae

  9. Spiders! A pretty little ground spider of some kind, a female _Pardosa lapidicina_ (the beaches were TEEMING with them), a little long-jawed orbweaver raking in the plentiful midges. There were a bunch more but I didn't have time to get pictures of them.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Lycosidae #Tetragnathidae #ArthroBeauty

  10. Spiders! A pretty little ground spider of some kind, a female _Pardosa lapidicina_ (the beaches were TEEMING with them), a little long-jawed orbweaver raking in the plentiful midges. There were a bunch more but I didn't have time to get pictures of them.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Lycosidae #Tetragnathidae #ArthroBeauty

  11. Spiders! A pretty little ground spider of some kind, a female _Pardosa lapidicina_ (the beaches were TEEMING with them), a little long-jawed orbweaver raking in the plentiful midges. There were a bunch more but I didn't have time to get pictures of them.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Lycosidae #Tetragnathidae #ArthroBeauty

  12. Spiders! A pretty little ground spider of some kind, a female _Pardosa lapidicina_ (the beaches were TEEMING with them), a little long-jawed orbweaver raking in the plentiful midges. There were a bunch more but I didn't have time to get pictures of them.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Lycosidae #Tetragnathidae #ArthroBeauty

  13. From yesterday: all species I've really only found on/immediately near those tall pine trees with red bark. The pretty yellow/gold/silver jumping spider _Eris floridana_; a tiny _Admestina_ jumping spider with a flattened, speckled body; and a mite from the family Erythracaridae (I'm calling it, I feel pretty sure).

    I have found these even in rather bare, shabby, pissed-in areas that get a lot of human foot traffic, normally not a great place to find bugs!

    Another kind of arachnid that seems to like the pine trees are opilionids, in the fall when they get big and mate.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythracaridae

  14. From yesterday: all species I've really only found on/immediately near those tall pine trees with red bark. The pretty yellow/gold/silver jumping spider _Eris floridana_; a tiny _Admestina_ jumping spider with a flattened, speckled body; and a mite from the family Erythracaridae (I'm calling it, I feel pretty sure).

    I have found these even in rather bare, shabby, pissed-in areas that get a lot of human foot traffic, normally not a great place to find bugs!

    Another kind of arachnid that seems to like the pine trees are opilionids, in the fall when they get big and mate.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythracaridae

  15. From yesterday: all species I've really only found on/immediately near those tall pine trees with red bark. The pretty yellow/gold/silver jumping spider _Eris floridana_; a tiny _Admestina_ jumping spider with a flattened, speckled body; and a mite from the family Erythracaridae (I'm calling it, I feel pretty sure).

    I have found these even in rather bare, shabby, pissed-in areas that get a lot of human foot traffic, normally not a great place to find bugs!

    Another kind of arachnid that seems to like the pine trees are opilionids, in the fall when they get big and mate.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythracaridae

  16. From yesterday: all species I've really only found on/immediately near those tall pine trees with red bark. The pretty yellow/gold/silver jumping spider _Eris floridana_; a tiny _Admestina_ jumping spider with a flattened, speckled body; and a mite from the family Erythracaridae (I'm calling it, I feel pretty sure).

    I have found these even in rather bare, shabby, pissed-in areas that get a lot of human foot traffic, normally not a great place to find bugs!

    Another kind of arachnid that seems to like the pine trees are opilionids, in the fall when they get big and mate.

    #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythracaridae

  17. Went down to the lake today and found several zebra jumping spiders (_Salticus scenicus_) feasting on the midges (_Chironomus_ sp.) that are beginning to emerge!

    ⚠️ WARNING: first pic in particular is alarmingly cute, prepare yourself

    #JumpingSpiders #spiders #bugstodon #SpidersOfMastodon #Araneae #Salticidae #Chironomidae #ArthroBeauty

  18. Went down to the lake today and found several zebra jumping spiders (_Salticus scenicus_) feasting on the midges (_Chironomus_ sp.) that are beginning to emerge!

    ⚠️ WARNING: first pic in particular is alarmingly cute, prepare yourself

    #JumpingSpiders #spiders #bugstodon #SpidersOfMastodon #Araneae #Salticidae #Chironomidae #ArthroBeauty

  19. Went down to the lake today and found several zebra jumping spiders (_Salticus scenicus_) feasting on the midges (_Chironomus_ sp.) that are beginning to emerge!

    ⚠️ WARNING: first pic in particular is alarmingly cute, prepare yourself

    #JumpingSpiders #spiders #bugstodon #SpidersOfMastodon #Araneae #Salticidae #Chironomidae #ArthroBeauty

  20. Went down to the lake today and found several zebra jumping spiders (_Salticus scenicus_) feasting on the midges (_Chironomus_ sp.) that are beginning to emerge!

    ⚠️ WARNING: first pic in particular is alarmingly cute, prepare yourself

    #JumpingSpiders #spiders #bugstodon #SpidersOfMastodon #Araneae #Salticidae #Chironomidae #ArthroBeauty

  21. CW: arachnophobia

    A photo I took of nature's sweetest spider. They really are gentle giants.

    #spider #tarantula #araneae

  22. NEW TRAVIS MCENERY VIDEO LET'S GOOOOOO youtu.be/2TE9xZDnvM8

    (This one is on _Uloborus glomosus_, a venomless cribellate orbweaver, and is full of surprises!)

    #spiders #Araneae #Uloboridae

  23. “Most people, when they see one spider they start screaming. And here, we have 100,000 spiders and everybody wants to learn about them — to me that is hard to believe.”

    Agreed!!

    #arthropods #spiders #arachnids #araneae #spiderweb #worldslargest

    Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio
    cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/bigge

  24. Have got back from a long-postponed outing to forage for seeds and berries for guerrilla native plant gardening! Goldenrod, milkweed, Virginia creeper, staghorn sumac, brown-eyed Susans, etc. I saw two cottontail rabbits and a few black-capped chickadees. Plus, this small orbweaver (_Zygiella_) nestled in a staghorn sumac (_Rhus typhina_) bob.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  25. #Arachtober 31: handsome little ice cream sandwich boi (male _Hentzia palmarum_ jumping spider) spotted back in August.

    Damn, posting every day feels like way more work than it should. Anyway back to slightly less frequent arachnid posts tomorrow…

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

  26. #Arachtober 31: handsome little ice cream sandwich boi (male _Hentzia palmarum_ jumping spider) spotted back in August.

    Damn, posting every day feels like way more work than it should. Anyway back to slightly less frequent arachnid posts tomorrow…

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

  27. #Arachtober 31: handsome little ice cream sandwich boi (male _Hentzia palmarum_ jumping spider) spotted back in August.

    Damn, posting every day feels like way more work than it should. Anyway back to slightly less frequent arachnid posts tomorrow…

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

  28. #Arachtober 31: handsome little ice cream sandwich boi (male _Hentzia palmarum_ jumping spider) spotted back in August.

    Damn, posting every day feels like way more work than it should. Anyway back to slightly less frequent arachnid posts tomorrow…

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

  29. #Arachtober 31: handsome little ice cream sandwich boi (male _Hentzia palmarum_ jumping spider) spotted back in August.

    Damn, posting every day feels like way more work than it should. Anyway back to slightly less frequent arachnid posts tomorrow…

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

  30. #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).

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae

  31. #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).

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae

  32. #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).

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae

  33. #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).

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae