#jumpingspiders — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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 17: find the jumping spider! (Answer in next post.)
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#Arachtober 14: The gaps between the wooden snow fence and the metal posts are ideal homes for jumping spiders and sac spiders! I found several bold jumping spiders (_Phidippus audax_) this way. High Park, Toronto.
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#Arachtober 10th
Sun Jumping Spider (Heliophanus sp.)
#InternationalJumpingSpiderDay #Spider #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnid #Arachnids #Spiders #JumpingSpider #JumpingSpiders #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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#Arachtober 10: happy #InternationalJumpingSpiderDay! Here is one of my favourite species, the peppered jumper _Pelegrina galathea_, seen recently. I find the females' patterns so mesmerizing. This one is brown but they can also be just black and white.
While I've found them in all manner of places, I've found that tansy flower heads are a good place to look for them. They like to make little silk retreats under the dense canopy of flowers.
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#Arachtober 7: can't go wrong with a classic, the photogenic bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_). In my experience they are shy at first, but if you take a little extra time and are patient, they become curious and friendly.
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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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The broad, dense canopies of tansy flowers (_Tanasetum_) are a perfect home for small jumping spiders like this juvenile bold jumper (_Phidippus audax_)!
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #bloomscrolling
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gotta stay on brand
here's a sidewalk mite (_Balaustium_) feeding on some predatory mite, Rhagidiidae or Cunaxidae or thereabouts; and an _Admestina_ jumping spider I found near pine trees in a nearby park. I find such interesting arthropods around pines that I don't see anywhere else.
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #DailySpiderPic #arachnids #mites #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae #Araneae #Salticidae
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Yesterday I was going up to a park bench to lock my bike to it when I saw the most enormous bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_) poking her head out from between two slats. She had a spacious silk retreat with a well-wrapped egg sac. She was shy, but I gradually lured her out by lightly dragging a blade of grass across one opening of the retreat, and she stalked and pounced on it, like a cat.
I find that contrary to their name bold jumpers are very shy at first, but once they've gotten used to you they are unafraid and will climb all over you. Unfortunately I didn't have time to properly make friends with this spider.
#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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#SpiderSunday: A male _Habronattus decorus_ on the western shore of Tommy Thompson Park! I have only found these before on the City Hall green roof. The females have camouflaging brown patterns, but the males have a silvery-white cephalothorax and iridescent abdomen that shifts between orange-red and purple-red. And like all jumping spiders, their large front middle eyes give them a cute and charismatic aura.
#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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it climbed onto my hand* and enjoyed the view from the top of my finger. then I put it back where I found it and said thank you. (2/2)
* pls ignore the wonky nail, accidentally dropped a rock on it a while back
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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#SpiderSunday: peek
CW: very cute, you've been warned!!
#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty
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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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#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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CW: Absolutely 100% an ant, nothing to see here
#SpiderSunday: _Synageles_ ant-mimic jumping spider, plus a nearby _Prenolepis imparis_ (not the model, I think, but it's the most common ant in my garden)
#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Formicidae #ants #mimicry
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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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I grabbed a large male midge from a wall nearby—they're still swarming—and slowly waved it in front of the hole. A surprisingly large bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_) emerged, seized it from my fingers, and went back in. Then she turned around and sat as before, with her head just out of the hole, eating the midge. (2/2)
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Philodromidae #Thomisidae #Dictynidae
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#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Philodromidae #Thomisidae #Dictynidae
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#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Philodromidae #Thomisidae #Dictynidae
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#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Philodromidae #Thomisidae #Dictynidae
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#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Philodromidae #Thomisidae #Dictynidae
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#Arachtober 23: from June, a long-legged velvet mite (family Erythraeidae) climbs into a silk retreat over the exuvia (molted exoskeleton) of the jumping spider (family Salticidae) that previously occupied it. This is not the first time I have seen mites using old spider retreats for shelter!
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #MiteBehaviour #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders • #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae #Araneae #Salticidae
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Many of the plump female alates were quickly getting snapped up by spiders. I saw a grass spider (_Agelenopsis_) wrapping one up right in front of a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_) who had clearly been hoping to capture it and looked up at me like "Did you see that?"
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #SpiderBehaviour #spiders • #Araneae #Salticidae #Agelenidae
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#SpiderSunday: the juvenile bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_) that lives in a nearby fence. I'll often go a few blocks out of my way to see if it's there. It's very cute.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders • #Araneae #Salticidae
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#SpiderSunday: the young bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_) in the fence a couple blocks over is getting larger! And fluffy.
As I took pictures it pivoted around attentively to watch passing cars, people, etc.
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders • #Araneae #Salticidae
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#SpiderSunday: met this curious little jumping spider (_Eris_?) on a railing post. The last photo was taken just before it jumped onto my phone.
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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CW: Spider content
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CW: Spider photos
Time well spent, with my new, wee garden pal❤️
#ZebraSpider is native to this area.
Their scientific name derives from salticus, Latin for “jump” & Greek scenicus for “theatrical”.
Their common name is from their striped zebra-like appearance.#SalticusScenicus #arachnids #JumpingSpiders #spiders #nature #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PNW #CuteCritters #BeneficialGardenSpider #NativeSpiders #LoveAllCreaturesGreatAndSmall #CuteSpiders
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CW: Jumping spider short vid
It's a wee #ZebraSpider 😍
Witness the jump-off.#SalticusScenicus #arachnids #JumpingSpiders #spiders #nature #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PNW #CuteCritters #BeneficialGardenSpider
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Haven't even gotten around to IDing stuff yet, too tired to hashtag assiduously, but here's just a few finds!
- this gorgeous damselfly, I just went real slow to get close enough with the macro lens
- lots of these cockroaches, native _Parcoblatta_ I think
- an extremely pregegnant ant-mimic jumping spider, _Synemosyne_ I think
- lots of huuuge isopods!#bugstodon #insects #damselflies #cockroach #cockroaches #spiders #JumpingSpiders #isopods • #Odonata #Zygoptera #Blattodea #Ectobiidae #Araneae #Salticidae #Isopoda
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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
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Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence
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Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence
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Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence
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Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence
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Today in small garden #spooder doings: I found these three juvenile bold jumping spiders, #PhidippusAudax, each tiny cutie hanging out in their own #Dahlia petal palace. I wonder if they're siblings...
#PDX #Arachnids #FragileThings #Spiders #JumpingSpiders #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence