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getting some spidering in before #CriticalMass
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #CrabSpiders #GhostSpiders #Araneae #Thomisidae #Anyphaenidae #HighPark #toronto
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#DailySpiderPic × #WeevilWednesday: this _Parasteatoda_ cobweb spider has captured some kind of broad-nosed weevil (subfamily Entiminae). Note the brood of recently hatched spiderlings clustered around the papery-looking egg sacs at the top of the frame!
RIP weevil but spiders gotta eat too.
#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #spiders #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #Araneae #Theridiidae -
#DailySpiderPic × #WeevilWednesday: this _Parasteatoda_ cobweb spider has captured some kind of broad-nosed weevil (subfamily Entiminae). Note the brood of recently hatched spiderlings clustered around the papery-looking egg sacs at the top of the frame!
RIP weevil but spiders gotta eat too.
#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #spiders #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #Araneae #Theridiidae -
#DailySpiderPic × #WeevilWednesday: this _Parasteatoda_ cobweb spider has captured some kind of broad-nosed weevil (subfamily Entiminae). Note the brood of recently hatched spiderlings clustered around the papery-looking egg sacs at the top of the frame!
RIP weevil but spiders gotta eat too.
#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #spiders #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #Araneae #Theridiidae -
Went down to the lake and fed midges to the bold jumping spiders living in the railing by the pool. °OO°
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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Went down to the lake and fed midges to the bold jumping spiders living in the railing by the pool. °OO°
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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Went down to the lake and fed midges to the bold jumping spiders living in the railing by the pool. °OO°
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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went down to lake and saw some good bugs
1. long-jawed orbweaver (_Tetragnatha_)
2. crambid moth (one of the grass-veneer moths, tribe Crambini), so confident in its camouflage as a hollow grass blade I could get quite close
3. also very well camouflaged _Eustala_ orbweaver
4. dolichopodid fly with fly prey?#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #DailySpiderPic #spiders #insects #mothstodon #moths #flies #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Araneidae #Lepidoptera #Crambidae #Diptera #Dolichopodidae
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went down to lake and saw some good bugs
1. long-jawed orbweaver (_Tetragnatha_)
2. crambid moth (one of the grass-veneer moths, tribe Crambini), so confident in its camouflage as a hollow grass blade I could get quite close
3. also very well camouflaged _Eustala_ orbweaver
4. dolichopodid fly with fly prey?#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #DailySpiderPic #spiders #insects #mothstodon #moths #flies #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Araneidae #Lepidoptera #Crambidae #Diptera #Dolichopodidae
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went down to lake and saw some good bugs
1. long-jawed orbweaver (_Tetragnatha_)
2. crambid moth (one of the grass-veneer moths, tribe Crambini), so confident in its camouflage as a hollow grass blade I could get quite close
3. also very well camouflaged _Eustala_ orbweaver
4. dolichopodid fly with fly prey?#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #DailySpiderPic #spiders #insects #mothstodon #moths #flies #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Araneidae #Lepidoptera #Crambidae #Diptera #Dolichopodidae
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#SpiderSunday: the crevices between the bricks under the railway bridge are well-populated with hacklemesh weavers (_Amaurobius ferox_) who can be coaxed out with an electric toothbrush. If you replace the toothbrush with your finger (#DontTryThisAtHome) they will sometimes, after some consideration, try biting the strange, un-bug-like thing. However they're not especially effective at it and it doesn't take much encouragement to get them to let go.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Amaurobiidae
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#SpiderSunday: the crevices between the bricks under the railway bridge are well-populated with hacklemesh weavers (_Amaurobius ferox_) who can be coaxed out with an electric toothbrush. If you replace the toothbrush with your finger (#DontTryThisAtHome) they will sometimes, after some consideration, try biting the strange, un-bug-like thing. However they're not especially effective at it and it doesn't take much encouragement to get them to let go.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Amaurobiidae
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#SpiderSunday: the crevices between the bricks under the railway bridge are well-populated with hacklemesh weavers (_Amaurobius ferox_) who can be coaxed out with an electric toothbrush. If you replace the toothbrush with your finger (#DontTryThisAtHome) they will sometimes, after some consideration, try biting the strange, un-bug-like thing. However they're not especially effective at it and it doesn't take much encouragement to get them to let go.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Amaurobiidae
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Big catch for a little spider!
Zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with crane fly (family Tipulidae).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #flies #CraneFlies #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Tipulidae
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Big catch for a little spider!
Zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with crane fly (family Tipulidae).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #flies #CraneFlies #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Tipulidae
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Big catch for a little spider!
Zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with crane fly (family Tipulidae).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #flies #CraneFlies #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Tipulidae
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A friend and I had a field day at Glatved Beach looking for spiders. I'll say it again, going hunting with nerdy friends is the best. He really had a knack for spotting the little jumpers. This little beaut is a
Aelurillus v-insignitus
V-Hoppekop
V-Signed Jumping Spider#Entomology #WildlifePhotography #iNaturalist #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #Spiders #JumpingSpiders
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#DailySpiderPic: an unexpected find in my bathroom—a spitting spider (_Scytodes thoracica_), only the second or third one I've ever seen! These spiders' large, bulbous heads house special glands that let them spray venom-laced silk onto prey, and they are adept at hunting other spiders as well as insects. In my part of the world they are generally indoor spiders.
I love the intricate patterns on its body. The curlicues on its head remind me of the F-holes in violins.
After this photoshoot I returned it to where I found it.
#ArthroBeauty #spiders #SpittingSpiders #Araneae #Scytodidae
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#DailySpiderPic: an unexpected find in my bathroom—a spitting spider (_Scytodes thoracica_), only the second or third one I've ever seen! These spiders' large, bulbous heads house special glands that let them spray venom-laced silk onto prey, and they are adept at hunting other spiders as well as insects. In my part of the world they are generally indoor spiders.
I love the intricate patterns on its body. The curlicues on its head remind me of the F-holes in violins.
After this photoshoot I returned it to where I found it.
#ArthroBeauty #spiders #SpittingSpiders #Araneae #Scytodidae
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#DailySpiderPic: an unexpected find in my bathroom—a spitting spider (_Scytodes thoracica_), only the second or third one I've ever seen! These spiders' large, bulbous heads house special glands that let them spray venom-laced silk onto prey, and they are adept at hunting other spiders as well as insects. In my part of the world they are generally indoor spiders.
I love the intricate patterns on its body. The curlicues on its head remind me of the F-holes in violins.
After this photoshoot I returned it to where I found it.
#ArthroBeauty #spiders #SpittingSpiders #Araneae #Scytodidae
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Yesterday I went down to the basement to see if the laundry room really was closed for repairs or if I'd somehow misread the notice. It was closed. However on the stairs down I saw a spiderling, then another spiderling… My first thought was funnel-weavers of some kind, but they looked like wolf spiders. But why would there be a bunch of baby wolf spiders around if there weren't…Ah! Looking around I saw a mother wolf spider huddled against a step. I coaxed her onto my hand and let her out in the garden, and managed to get one of the loose spiderlings as well.
Wolf spiders carry their young on their abdomens for a time after hatching, the only spider family that does so.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #WolfSpiders #Araneae #Lycosidae
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Yesterday I went down to the basement to see if the laundry room really was closed for repairs or if I'd somehow misread the notice. It was closed. However on the stairs down I saw a spiderling, then another spiderling… My first thought was funnel-weavers of some kind, but they looked like wolf spiders. But why would there be a bunch of baby wolf spiders around if there weren't…Ah! Looking around I saw a mother wolf spider huddled against a step. I coaxed her onto my hand and let her out in the garden, and managed to get one of the loose spiderlings as well.
Wolf spiders carry their young on their abdomens for a time after hatching, the only spider family that does so.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #WolfSpiders #Araneae #Lycosidae
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Yesterday I went down to the basement to see if the laundry room really was closed for repairs or if I'd somehow misread the notice. It was closed. However on the stairs down I saw a spiderling, then another spiderling… My first thought was funnel-weavers of some kind, but they looked like wolf spiders. But why would there be a bunch of baby wolf spiders around if there weren't…Ah! Looking around I saw a mother wolf spider huddled against a step. I coaxed her onto my hand and let her out in the garden, and managed to get one of the loose spiderlings as well.
Wolf spiders carry their young on their abdomens for a time after hatching, the only spider family that does so.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #WolfSpiders #Araneae #Lycosidae
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#DailyMitePic × #DailySpiderPic: I was taking a photo of a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a tiny midge when I saw a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) sneakily approaching. It pounced and seized the midge for itself! (1/2)
#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #spiders #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Araneae #Salticidae
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#DailyMitePic × #DailySpiderPic: I was taking a photo of a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a tiny midge when I saw a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) sneakily approaching. It pounced and seized the midge for itself! (1/2)
#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #spiders #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Araneae #Salticidae
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#DailyMitePic × #DailySpiderPic: I was taking a photo of a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a tiny midge when I saw a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) sneakily approaching. It pounced and seized the midge for itself! (1/2)
#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #spiders #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Araneae #Salticidae
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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There's a tan jumping spider (_Platycryptus undatus_) that apparently lives on the garden wall. I caught a plant bug for her. She didn't take it out of my fingers but I put it on the edge of a brick. She circled warily until she was behind it, then began tapping her trembling pedipalps in unison (you could practically see the gears turning in her head and equations flying by). Then she leaped on it and dragged it into the shade between two bricks. I hope she survives and sticks around. It is nice having a jumping spider to visit.
(There are plenty of zebra jumpers already, but I can't tell them apart)
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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There's a tan jumping spider (_Platycryptus undatus_) that apparently lives on the garden wall. I caught a plant bug for her. She didn't take it out of my fingers but I put it on the edge of a brick. She circled warily until she was behind it, then began tapping her trembling pedipalps in unison (you could practically see the gears turning in her head and equations flying by). Then she leaped on it and dragged it into the shade between two bricks. I hope she survives and sticks around. It is nice having a jumping spider to visit.
(There are plenty of zebra jumpers already, but I can't tell them apart)
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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There's a tan jumping spider (_Platycryptus undatus_) that apparently lives on the garden wall. I caught a plant bug for her. She didn't take it out of my fingers but I put it on the edge of a brick. She circled warily until she was behind it, then began tapping her trembling pedipalps in unison (you could practically see the gears turning in her head and equations flying by). Then she leaped on it and dragged it into the shade between two bricks. I hope she survives and sticks around. It is nice having a jumping spider to visit.
(There are plenty of zebra jumpers already, but I can't tell them apart)
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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#DailySpiderPic: Just the other day I said to @futurebird that I really wanted to find another male _Philodromus marxi_ and today IT HAPPENED. It was ballooning from the arm of a Muskoka chair by the lake, in the same park where I'd found one years ago.
While most running crab spiders here are grey or brown, made to camouflage against tree bark or in the undergrowth, _P. marxi_ males have shiny iridescent abdomens. I think they are stunningly beautiful.
#bugstodon #spiders #RunningCrabSpiders #Araneae #Philodromidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: Just the other day I said to @futurebird that I really wanted to find another male _Philodromus marxi_ and today IT HAPPENED. It was ballooning from the arm of a Muskoka chair by the lake, in the same park where I'd found one years ago.
While most running crab spiders here are grey or brown, made to camouflage against tree bark or in the undergrowth, _P. marxi_ males have shiny iridescent abdomens. I think they are stunningly beautiful.
#bugstodon #spiders #RunningCrabSpiders #Araneae #Philodromidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: Just the other day I said to @futurebird that I really wanted to find another male _Philodromus marxi_ and today IT HAPPENED. It was ballooning from the arm of a Muskoka chair by the lake, in the same park where I'd found one years ago.
While most running crab spiders here are grey or brown, made to camouflage against tree bark or in the undergrowth, _P. marxi_ males have shiny iridescent abdomens. I think they are stunningly beautiful.
#bugstodon #spiders #RunningCrabSpiders #Araneae #Philodromidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: I was thrilled to discover that there is a feather-legged or hackled orbweaver (family Uloboridae) in the lavender plant again this year—surely a child of last year's.
These spiders are unusual in a few ways: they have lost their venom entirely, and they make orb webs with cribellate silk that is fuzzy instead of sticky. (There are many spiders that make orb webs, and many that make cribellate silk, but only this family does both.) They are not rare, but I still think they are interesting.
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#DailySpiderPic: I was thrilled to discover that there is a feather-legged or hackled orbweaver (family Uloboridae) in the lavender plant again this year—surely a child of last year's.
These spiders are unusual in a few ways: they have lost their venom entirely, and they make orb webs with cribellate silk that is fuzzy instead of sticky. (There are many spiders that make orb webs, and many that make cribellate silk, but only this family does both.) They are not rare, but I still think they are interesting.
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#DailySpiderPic: I was thrilled to discover that there is a feather-legged or hackled orbweaver (family Uloboridae) in the lavender plant again this year—surely a child of last year's.
These spiders are unusual in a few ways: they have lost their venom entirely, and they make orb webs with cribellate silk that is fuzzy instead of sticky. (There are many spiders that make orb webs, and many that make cribellate silk, but only this family does both.) They are not rare, but I still think they are interesting.
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#DailySpiderPic: was curious who occupied this luxurious home so I lifted up the leaf and this male yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) popped out!
#bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: was curious who occupied this luxurious home so I lifted up the leaf and this male yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) popped out!
#bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: was curious who occupied this luxurious home so I lifted up the leaf and this male yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) popped out!
#bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae #ArthroBeauty
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#FlyFriday × #DailySpiderPic: a male non-biting midge (family Chironomidae) falls prey to a minuscule juvenile jumping spider. Male midges' plumose (literally, feather-like) antennae are used for sensing females.
#bugstodon #insects #flies #FridayFlyday #FlydayFriday #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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#FlyFriday × #DailySpiderPic: a male non-biting midge (family Chironomidae) falls prey to a minuscule juvenile jumping spider. Male midges' plumose (literally, feather-like) antennae are used for sensing females.
#bugstodon #insects #flies #FridayFlyday #FlydayFriday #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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#FlyFriday × #DailySpiderPic: a male non-biting midge (family Chironomidae) falls prey to a minuscule juvenile jumping spider. Male midges' plumose (literally, feather-like) antennae are used for sensing females.
#bugstodon #insects #flies #FridayFlyday #FlydayFriday #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae
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Found three spiders in a hands-breadth under the lip of a brick wall: a good-sized _Parasteatoda tepidariorum_ house spider; a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_); and its prey, a small cobweb spider of some kind such as _Theridion_ based on the markings (see last pic).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #CobwebSpiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Theridiidae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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Found three spiders in a hands-breadth under the lip of a brick wall: a good-sized _Parasteatoda tepidariorum_ house spider; a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_); and its prey, a small cobweb spider of some kind such as _Theridion_ based on the markings (see last pic).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #CobwebSpiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Theridiidae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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Found three spiders in a hands-breadth under the lip of a brick wall: a good-sized _Parasteatoda tepidariorum_ house spider; a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_); and its prey, a small cobweb spider of some kind such as _Theridion_ based on the markings (see last pic).
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #CobwebSpiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Theridiidae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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A ball of baby orbweavers. In my very own yard!!! #blessed
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae #ArthroBeauty
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A ball of baby orbweavers. In my very own yard!!! #blessed
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae #ArthroBeauty
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A ball of baby orbweavers. In my very own yard!!! #blessed
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae #ArthroBeauty
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A pretty meh day but still managed to see several spiders:
- a mesh-web weaver couple
- a crab spider, something in Coriarachnini
- _Attulus fasciger_ with that teeny tiny posterior median eye clearly visible
- a cobweb spider, maybe _Enoplognatha_?#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #CrabSpiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #Thomisidae #Salticidae #Theridiidae
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A pretty meh day but still managed to see several spiders:
- a mesh-web weaver couple
- a crab spider, something in Coriarachnini
- _Attulus fasciger_ with that teeny tiny posterior median eye clearly visible
- a cobweb spider, maybe _Enoplognatha_?#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #CrabSpiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #Thomisidae #Salticidae #Theridiidae
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A pretty meh day but still managed to see several spiders:
- a mesh-web weaver couple
- a crab spider, something in Coriarachnini
- _Attulus fasciger_ with that teeny tiny posterior median eye clearly visible
- a cobweb spider, maybe _Enoplognatha_?#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #CrabSpiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #Thomisidae #Salticidae #Theridiidae
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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.
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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.