#dailyspidervid — Public Fediverse posts
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Dealing with a lot of real-life Stuff but I had a few minutes in the garden yesterday and this little _Synageles_ ant-mimic jumping spider cheered me up.
#DailySpiderVid #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #mimicry #myrmecomorphy
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Here's a short clip of the haematodocha deflating and inflating, using the hydraulic pressure of haemolymph (arthropod "blood"). Uh, NSFW unless you're an arachnologist I guess
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #SpiderSex #spiders #Araneae #Clubionidae
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Okay, The People Demanded It, so I went back to the lake to look for the jumping spider. It either wasn't there or wouldn't come out. However, I did get video of a different bold jumper eating a midge I offered.
CW: live fly getting eaten
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae #JustRenfieldThings
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Put together a video of the long-jawed orbweaver making her egg sac! https://youtu.be/Ntymw7nCpuI
It's a mix of still photos and video segments, and much of the video is kind of repetitive, so see the timestamps in the description or use YT's chapter feature to skip ahead if you like. Or watch the whole thing for the immersive experience, I guess.
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #SpiderBehaviour #Araneae #Tetragnathidae
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A fascinating spider interaction I watched the other night: a pair of mating sac spiders were interrupted by a male who tried to butt in.
Video: https://youtu.be/ZULMAYnVyCQ
#iNaturalist observation (please correct me if the ID is wrong or could be better!): https://inaturalist.ca/observations/221615732 :inaturalist:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae
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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!
It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Dictynidae #cribellate #SpiderSilk
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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!
It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Dictynidae #cribellate #SpiderSilk
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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!
It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Dictynidae #cribellate #SpiderSilk
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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!
It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Dictynidae #cribellate #SpiderSilk
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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!
It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #Dictynidae #cribellate #SpiderSilk
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I have named the black widow Sabella, after Tanith Lee's femme fatale space vampire. Here she is drinking from her web right after I misted it with water.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderVid #spiders #Araneae #Theridiidae #Latrodectus
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#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.
Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.
More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess
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#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.
Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.
More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess
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#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.
Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.
More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess
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#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.
Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.
More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess
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#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.
Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.
More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:
#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess
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The other day I was lucky enough to catch a little running crab spider molting, beginning to end, on video! Many videos of spider molting are of tarantulas, which take hours to molt, and the sped-up footage looks freaky. But with small spiders it only takes minutes, and you can see how gradual it is. Check it out!
Bonus red-winged blackbird screeches, and a guest appearance from a clover mite.