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@samkrahl This one is a jumping spider (family #Salticidae)! (°OO°) is always jumping spiders.

Wolf spider eyes look like this: https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/84423#Lycosidae

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

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

Eight eyes, zero chill. Spotted this fuzzy jumping spider (Salticidae) in Biebrza National Park, Poland, striking the perfect pose on a curled leaf. Nature's tiniest, most curious hunter.

#JumpingSpider #Salticidae #MacroPhotography #Spider #Arachnid #InsectPhotography #NatureLovers #WildlifePhotography #MacroNature #BiebrzaNationalPark #Poland #BugsOfMastodon

#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

Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)

- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind

#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta

#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

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

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

Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.

#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae

#SpiderSunday: sorry, haven't seen any spiders lately, just ants. Totally normal ants.

#bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae

#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

And then there's Paracyrba wanlessi, the jumping spider that pulls mosquito larvae out of water-filled internodes of decaying bamboo. Found in Malaysia and described in 1996. #spiders #salticidae #bamboo #malaysia https://salticidae.pl/diagnost/paracyrb/wanlessi.htm

One of my favorite mosquito facts is that there's a spider in Africa, the vampire jumping spider (Evarcha culicivora), that specializes on mosquitoes plump from a recent blood meal. It was described in 2003. #inaturalist #mosquitoes #spiders #blood #salticidae #insects #africa https://youtu.be/dA6sCQlHPEs?t=78

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

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

My mum is the best boss ever. "if you want to go on a ramble tomorrow, please do, I'll just sleep in". So I did. The Heath nearby is always a brilliant spot to visit.

#Spider #JumpingSpider #Salticidae #ArthroBeauty

This cutie had better hop off, I thought. Coaxing it off the car, and it hopped onto my phone, then on to the door. 🙄
#salticidae on #ev

Garden arachnids from today:

- _Leucauge venusta_ spiderling has set up near the mosquito bucket
- male _Attulus fasciger_
- couldn't quite ID this smallish, cryptic-patterned jumper, any ideas? (🌎 Toronto, Ontario)
- bonus mite: pollen-eating _Balaustium_ have started to appear!

#SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #spiders #orbweavers #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Tetragnathidae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythraeidae

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

A nap ízeltlábúja a pókok ugrópókok családjába tartozó dudva ugrópók - Marpissa nivoyi https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/dudva-ugropok/talalatok #dudvaUgrópók #MarpissaNivoyi #ugrópókok #Salticidae #pókok #Araneae #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

Look at this cutie that posed for me once! 🕷️🤎

From 2023

From yesterday: all species I've really only found on/immediately near those tall pine trees with red bark. The pretty yellow/gold/silver jumping spider _Eris floridana_; a tiny _Admestina_ jumping spider with a flattened, speckled body; and a mite from the family Erythracaridae (I'm calling it, I feel pretty sure).

I have found these even in rather bare, shabby, pissed-in areas that get a lot of human foot traffic, normally not a great place to find bugs!

Another kind of arachnid that seems to like the pine trees are opilionids, in the fall when they get big and mate.

#DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #mites #Araneae #Salticidae #Acari #Acariformes #Erythracaridae

Went down to the lake today and found several zebra jumping spiders (_Salticus scenicus_) feasting on the midges (_Chironomus_ sp.) that are beginning to emerge!

⚠️ WARNING: first pic in particular is alarmingly cute, prepare yourself

#JumpingSpiders #spiders #bugstodon #SpidersOfMastodon #Araneae #Salticidae #Chironomidae #ArthroBeauty

A nap ízeltlábúja a pókok ugrópókok családjába tartozó fekete hangyautánzópók - Leptorchestes berolinensis https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/fekete-hangyautanzopok/talalatok #feketeHangyautánzópók #LeptorchestesBerolinensis #ugrópókok #Salticidae #pókok #Araneae #CitizenScience

I injured an innocent little jumping spider when attempting to trap it inside a plastic food container. It lost a leg. I feed bad about that. Can it regrow its missing leg?
#spiders #arachnids #jumpingspiders #salticidae #spiderlegs #animalinjury #limbregeneration

Hello, I am a spider. Will you be my friend?

😀

I photographed this little guy on the weekend in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. It's an Australian Bronze Hopper, Helpis minitabunda. Introduced accidentally to NZ, it now occurs throughout the North Island and upper to middle South Island.

This species is unusual amongst spiders in that the male is larger than the female.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/329039712

#JumpingSpider #Salticidae #NZ #entomology #spiders #nature

#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

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

A nap ízeltlábúja a pókok ugrópókok családjába tartozó szobai ugrópók - Pseudeuophrys lanigera https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/szobai-ugropok/talalatok #szobaiUgrópók #PseudeuophrysLanigera #ugrópókok #Salticidae #pókok #Araneae #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

#Arachtober 17, part 2. It was shy and immediately went back in when I got closer.

#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

#Arachtober 17: find the jumping spider! (Answer in next post.)

#ArthroBeauty #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae

#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.

#ArthroBeauty #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

#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.

#ArthroBeauty #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

#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.

#ArthroBeauty #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

I haven't been taking my camera out much this year so I don't even have enough spider photos for each day of October from the past year? Crazy. Anyway, have a cute little jumper!

#Arachtober #Salticidae #Pelegrina #Oklahoma #Nature #Photography #Spiders #Invertebrate #NeverHomeAlone

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

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

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

What a beautiful paper :D Hurni-Cranston, T. & Hill, D. E. (2021). Three new jumping spiders of the genus Cosmophasis from Wallacea (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini). Peckhamia 228.1: 1-84. #cosmophasis #salticidae #spiders #biodiversity

Her impeccable lashes

#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

lots of jumping spiders! Moyobamba, Peru #iNaturalist #salticidae www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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