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  1. Nighttime can be slow at the Colorado rattlesnake den. A cat-faced orbweaver (_Araneus gemmoides_) that spins a web each night has become a regular focus: youtu.be/ltHjFqE4OWI

    Here she is catching and wrapping up a bug with impressive speed: youtu.be/uomRr4NqJCg

    Regular viewers have named her Hello Kitty.

    #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  2. IT BEGINS

    The first missing-sector orbweaver spiderling (_Zygiella_) of spring! I gasped and immediately got out my phone much to the bemusement of the neighbour who was putting out yard waste bags immediately in front of the fence the web was in.

    Later (as I explained), this spider will start making webs with a distinctive slice cut out of them, with a signal line down the middle leading directly from the hub to its retreat.

    #DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae

  3. 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

  4. #DailySpiderPic: night spiders!

    A couple big _Larinioides_; a silky _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider; and a running crab spider.

    Most of the spiders out and about now were born last year and overwintered. They are reaping a plentiful bounty of midges (family Chironomidae), which have begun to emerge.

    #ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae #Clubionidae #Philodromidae

  5. @JeffWestPhotography not a woodlouse spider but some kind of orbweaver (family #Araneidae)! Would need geographic location to properly ID it.

  6. @JeffWestPhotography not a woodlouse spider but some kind of orbweaver (family #Araneidae)! Would need geographic location to properly ID it.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. #Arachtober 29: didn't have time for a proper spider outing, so hopped over the garden wall to see what I could find in the yard—and almost walked right through this cross orbweaver's web strung between the dead coneflowers and columbines! As you can hopefully see in the close-up, her jaws are full of a big lump of mushed-up bugs.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  10. #Arachtober 29: didn't have time for a proper spider outing, so hopped over the garden wall to see what I could find in the yard—and almost walked right through this cross orbweaver's web strung between the dead coneflowers and columbines! As you can hopefully see in the close-up, her jaws are full of a big lump of mushed-up bugs.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  11. #Arachtober 27: late October, we're getting frost warnings, but the orbweavers just keep on trucking. Taken just a few hours ago on a grocery run; the supermarket's large windows attract a lot of midges and are great scaffolds for the ubiquitous _Larinioides_ orbweavers.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  12. #Arachtober 27: late October, we're getting frost warnings, but the orbweavers just keep on trucking. Taken just a few hours ago on a grocery run; the supermarket's large windows attract a lot of midges and are great scaffolds for the ubiquitous _Larinioides_ orbweavers.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  13. #Arachtober 18: an Eastern parson spider (_Herpyllus ecclesiasticus_), a stealthy and fast-moving active hunter, feeding on a male _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver. (This was right behind a female's web.) You can see the distinctive "knees" of the male's pedipalps in focus in the second picture.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Araneidae

  14. #Arachtober 18: an Eastern parson spider (_Herpyllus ecclesiasticus_), a stealthy and fast-moving active hunter, feeding on a male _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver. (This was right behind a female's web.) You can see the distinctive "knees" of the male's pedipalps in focus in the second picture.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Gnaphosidae #Araneidae

  15. #Arachtober 15: it's _Zygiella_ courtship season! The males hang around the edges of the females' webs, plucking and strumming rhythmically to communicate. Here's a male with his long "elbowed" pedipalps; a female; and a cobweb spider preying on an unlucky male suitor who got too close.

    #ArthroBeauty #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae #Theridiidae

  16. #Arachtober 15: it's _Zygiella_ courtship season! The males hang around the edges of the females' webs, plucking and strumming rhythmically to communicate. Here's a male with his long "elbowed" pedipalps; a female; and a cobweb spider preying on an unlucky male suitor who got too close.

    #ArthroBeauty #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae #Theridiidae

  17. #Arachtober 9: a very cool orbweaver, _Gea heptagon_! Named because of its seven-pointed abdomen. So far I have only found them low among the grass in a particular marshy meadow. The juveniles have similar circular web decorations as young _Argiope_.

    #ArthroBeauty #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  18. #Arachtober 9: a very cool orbweaver, _Gea heptagon_! Named because of its seven-pointed abdomen. So far I have only found them low among the grass in a particular marshy meadow. The juveniles have similar circular web decorations as young _Argiope_.

    #ArthroBeauty #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  19. #dwr #freetube #fedibikes #MdRddG #NI #MdRzA #obob #fahrrad #FahrradStattPorsche

    #TousledCraneonTour

    #Welt! Bist du noch da?

    Bin spät dran …

    … daher heute ein Mix aus #Fensterfreitag ( #hidden #windows ), dem #Naturblog ( Ein #Prachtexemplar aus der Familie der #Araneidae ) und dem Hinweis, dass es mit 17°C recht angenehm ist Richtung #Arbeit zu #radeln.

    Ehm, #Wochenende ist auch in #Sicht!

    1/2

  20. i had to break out the fancy camera to get a night shot but here is ms. window orbweaver.

    approx. 12-15mm body length, maybe?

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  21. i had to break out the fancy camera to get a night shot but here is ms. window orbweaver.

    approx. 12-15mm body length, maybe?

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  22. I think of this _Larinioides_ colouration as "white chocolate". The spiders in this genus I see in my area range from almost black to grey to orange-brown to peach to beige to, like this one, almost white.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpiderSunday #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  23. I think of this _Larinioides_ colouration as "white chocolate". The spiders in this genus I see in my area range from almost black to grey to orange-brown to peach to beige to, like this one, almost white.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpiderSunday #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae

  24. #BREAKING: my pet _Larinioides_ orbweaver is almost certainly a juvenile male! The palps are way too bulbous for a female's, I think.

    Anyway, here e is chowing down on eir fruit flies.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae

  25. #BREAKING: my pet _Larinioides_ orbweaver is almost certainly a juvenile male! The palps are way too bulbous for a female's, I think.

    Anyway, here e is chowing down on eir fruit flies.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae

  26. It's that time of the week again: time to feed the spiders. I think the cellar spider (_Pholcus_) in the jar won't need food for a while—I've never seen one so fat! I also managed to get three fruit flies into the orbweaver's (_Larinioides_') web with tweezers.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae #Pholcidae

  27. It's that time of the week again: time to feed the spiders. I think the cellar spider (_Pholcus_) in the jar won't need food for a while—I've never seen one so fat! I also managed to get three fruit flies into the orbweaver's (_Larinioides_') web with tweezers.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae #Pholcidae

  28. A large crop of fruit flies (_Drosophila hydei_) hatched today. Coincidentally I noticed a tiny orbweaver, barely more than a spiderling, had made a web on the inside of my window, so I carefully used a paintbrush to hold a fruit fly in the web, which it promptly took.

    I had also found a smallish cellar spider under the shelves I use as a nightstand, so I moved it into the large jar I had used for the black widow, and, after giving it some time to acclimate, put in several fruit flies. It has already caught and wrapped up three. (Cellar spiders are well known to be impressive hunters.)

    Neither are large enough to eat more than a few fruit flies a week, so if I want to make a dent in the flies I must search the apartment for more spiders…

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae #Pholcidae

  29. A large crop of fruit flies (_Drosophila hydei_) hatched today. Coincidentally I noticed a tiny orbweaver, barely more than a spiderling, had made a web on the inside of my window, so I carefully used a paintbrush to hold a fruit fly in the web, which it promptly took.

    I had also found a smallish cellar spider under the shelves I use as a nightstand, so I moved it into the large jar I had used for the black widow, and, after giving it some time to acclimate, put in several fruit flies. It has already caught and wrapped up three. (Cellar spiders are well known to be impressive hunters.)

    Neither are large enough to eat more than a few fruit flies a week, so if I want to make a dent in the flies I must search the apartment for more spiders…

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae #Pholcidae

  30. #Arachtober 22: from June, one of my favourite "lifers" this year, a pair of _Gea heptagon_ orbweavers!! Found in the marshy meadow just past the Oculus. Such unique-looking orbweavers.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  31. #Arachtober 22: from June, one of my favourite "lifers" this year, a pair of _Gea heptagon_ orbweavers!! Found in the marshy meadow just past the Oculus. Such unique-looking orbweavers.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  32. Female (right) and male (left) _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweavers courting, from a few nights ago, with the traffic on the Gardiner in the background.

    This time of year you can regularly find male _Zygiella_ hanging out near female webs, often on special "mating threads", plucking rhythmically.

    #HopeYouLikeBokeh #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  33. Female (right) and male (left) _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweavers courting, from a few nights ago, with the traffic on the Gardiner in the background.

    This time of year you can regularly find male _Zygiella_ hanging out near female webs, often on special "mating threads", plucking rhythmically.

    #HopeYouLikeBokeh #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  34. #Arachtober 10: a tiny juvenile _Mangora_ orbweaver. At this time of year you can find orbweavers at their biggest, but also plenty of little spiders that will be overwintering.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  35. #Arachtober 10: a tiny juvenile _Mangora_ orbweaver. At this time of year you can find orbweavers at their biggest, but also plenty of little spiders that will be overwintering.

    #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  36. #Arachtober 8: a beautiful arabesque orbweaver (_Neoscona arabesca_), found along the Humber Trail near the Oculus. It's an excellent spidering spot I return to a few times a year; here's an earlier blog post about it: <nevillepark.ca/2022/09/19/fiel>

    I hope you can see why I will bike 20 minutes and up, even across town, to look for such dazzling beauties!

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  37. #Arachtober 8: a beautiful arabesque orbweaver (_Neoscona arabesca_), found along the Humber Trail near the Oculus. It's an excellent spidering spot I return to a few times a year; here's an earlier blog post about it: <nevillepark.ca/2022/09/19/fiel>

    I hope you can see why I will bike 20 minutes and up, even across town, to look for such dazzling beauties!

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  38. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  39. Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

    That could account for its messy web, I think.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  40. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  41. you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

    (second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

    obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
    and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk#Araneae #Araneidae

  42. Home again!

    There were also lots of big, gorgeous _Neoscona_ spotted orbweavers. Can't get enough of these.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  43. Home again!

    There were also lots of big, gorgeous _Neoscona_ spotted orbweavers. Can't get enough of these.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders#Araneae #Araneidae

  44. #DailySpiderPic: a _Larinioides_ orbweaver eating…another _Larinioides_ orbweaver.

    There are only a few midges out yet, and a hungry spider can't afford to be picky.

    #spiders #SpidersOfMastodon #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae #macro

  45. #DailySpiderPic: a _Larinioides_ orbweaver eating…another _Larinioides_ orbweaver.

    There are only a few midges out yet, and a hungry spider can't afford to be picky.

    #spiders #SpidersOfMastodon #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae #macro

  46. Belated #Arachtober 29 because I got vertigo yesterday: missing-sector orbweaver (_Zygiella_) male and female. I think these are _Z. x-notata_? The males wait patiently on the periphery of the females' webs, plucking out little guitar solos. I wish I could have gotten a video for you all, but it was a windy night and everything was too blurry/shaky.

    #DailySpiderPic #SpiderSunday #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae