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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

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

#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

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

#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #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

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

Her impeccable lashes

#DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae

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

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

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

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

#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

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

A jumping spider (f. Salticidae) in the North Woods of Central Park in late May. This particular one was being a picky eater. It would grab one bug, pause for a moment, then drop it. It repeated this behavior for about 20 minutes before it finally settled on one that it actually wanted to eat.

#jumpingspliders #Salticidae #spiders #arachnids #nature #wildlife #macro #ultramacro #canonphotography #luminarneo #centralpark #nycparks

Coppery Sun Jumping Spider

Schönbuch, BaWü, DE, 2022

#nature #natur #naturephotograpy #wildlifephotography #naturfotografie #wildlife #nature_photography #naturelovers #gdtfoto
#macro #macronature #macrophotography #makrofotografie #cygnustechdiffuser
#bugs #invertebrates #invertmacro
#spider #arachnids
#spiders #salticidae
#salticidsunday
#jumpingspider #springspinne
#arachnology #spinnen
#dailyspiderpic

Unidentified Salticid, Sydney, 2021.

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#invertebrates #invertmacro #spider #spidersofinstagram #arachnids #spiders
#arachnidsofinstagram #spidersoftheworld #salticidae #salticidsunday #jumpingspider #springspinne #arachnology #spinnen #macrodon

Lovely new Thomas Shahan video on Phidippus mystaceus

#salticidsunday #macrophotography #jumping #spiders #salticidae #oklahoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Pg7fjFj-A