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#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
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#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
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#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.
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#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.
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#Arachtober 26: sometimes on a whim you look inside a hole in a railing…
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Clubionidae
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It's still #Arachtober 24 somewhere: a tiny, curious zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_). It even gave me a little head tilt. WARNING: very high levels of cute
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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#Arachtober 22: a hobo spider, _Eratigena agrestis_ (I believe), found in a big willow tree down by the lake. These European spiders are imports to the Pacific Northwest but there are a few isolated populations elsewhere, like here in Toronto. I always get a kick out of seeing them.
Contrary to popular North American belief, they are not medically significant. They are close relatives of the native, equally harmless, and far more abundant grass spiders (genus _Agelenopsis_) and make the same flat webs with funnel-like retreats.
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#Arachtober 19: for spooky season, here's a couple of ghost spiders (family Anyphaenidae)! The first is an adult, possibly the mother of the tiny one in the second photo. They resemble sac spiders like _Clubiona_ and _Cheiracanthium_ but with distinct patterns of markings, and as you can see they make similar silk hammock retreats, here under the leaves of a _Silphium_ cup plant.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #GhostSpider #GhostSpiders #Araneae #Anyphaenidae
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#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
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#Arachtober 17, part 2. It was shy and immediately went back in when I got closer.
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Let's kick off #Arachtober with some fall colours! This beautiful coppery jumping spider—_Eris rufa_, maybe, or _Pelegrina_?—reminded me of autumn leaves. Tried to get an even closer pic of its iridescent scales.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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An _Attulus fasciger_ jumping spider I met yesterday. I like the green shine of their eyes and their soft-looking palps.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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Peanut Butter (that's what I've decided to call the _Platycryptus undatus_ who lives down the street) nabbed herself a female ant alate! I also saw more female alates in other spiders' webs, and a few that had gotten into the grocery store somehow.
Northeastern North Americans/ant people in general: anyone know which ants' nuptial flight time it is? Those yellow _Lasius_ maybe? The males (in my window orbweaver's web) seem yellow.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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CW: Jumping spider feeding, totally Renfield mode
The female _P. undatus_ was out today! She looked thin to me so I resolved to get her a fly, as I was catching a few anyway for my window orbweaver. The only problem is that at home, I put the flies in the refrigerator which temporarily knocks them out, and I also have tweezers to hold them. Awake, totally-able-to-fly flies are a different story!
When I showed her a fly in a container she locked on right away, and tried to pounce on it. Opening the little plastic container a crack did not work, as jumping spiders' hunting method is to pounce on prey from a distance, not grabbing it through a small opening. If I opened it further, the fly simply wriggled out and flew away. What worked was carefully opening the container and putting it over her while the fly was at the non-open end. She quickly caught the fly and I took away the container so she could retire with her prize.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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Yesterday I went to the big No Frills to get peanut butter as it was on sale, but it was sold out. In the evening I was like, let's try the No Frills near me. As I was passing a concrete pillar just down the street, I saw a surprisingly large jumping spider, the same pale grey as the concrete, cautiously emerging from a crack!
I had found a _Platycryptus undatus_ before, but a male one (they have reddish faces), which I guess must be much smaller. This one was as big as a bold jumper!
A common name is "tan jumping spider", but they are not necessarily tan-coloured, as you can see.
P.S. The other store did have the peanut butter.
#ArthroBeauty #InverteFest #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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#DailySpiderPic: "Well, this is awkward…" An ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) crosses paths with a _Prenolepis imparis_ ant. Its disguise is meant to put off potential predators that won't mess with ants—but the ants themselves rely more on chemical cues and aren't fooled. I saw a couple of _Synageles_ on this planter and they both carefully avoided the ants.
#SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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The ant _Prenolepis imparis_ and the jumping spider _Synageles_, on milkweed.
I don't think _P. imparis_ is the "model" for this spider, but they do look pretty similar—especially when they're both moving fast. It's very easy to mistake _Synageles_ for an ant.
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #DailyAntPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #JumpingSpider #Araneae #Salticidae #mimicry #myrmecomorphy