#spiders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spiders, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Spiders
Dear #spiders, please lock the door if you choose to get rid of your old exoskeleton in the bathroom.
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A colorful little jumping spider on a cactus.
#bugs #spiders #SpidersOfMastodon
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Desert tarantulas prepare for sex and death at Zion National Park
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/desert-tarantula-mating-zion-park/
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Aamuvarhain #lenkillä mietimme, mihin #laulujoutsen oli jättänyt tänä aamuna poikasensa sekä ihastelimme hämisten ahkeruutta Linnamäen rinteilla - kymmeniä verkkoja!
#Laika #ÄänislinnanLaika #koira #koirat #dog #dogs #hund #hundar #dogstodon #dogsoffedi #dogsofmastodon #joutsen #joutsenet #swan #swans #svan #svanar #lintu #linnut #birds #fåglar #hämähäkki #spindel #spindlar #spider #spiders #spindelnät #spindelväv #spiderweb #cobweb #web #seitti #seitit #luonto #natur #Borgå #Porvoo #Finland
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CW: Photo of an arthropod with more than six legs.
European garden spider (Araneus diadematus).
#photography #nature #spiders #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF90mm
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🕷️ A spider in Queensland hunts with a spring-loaded catapult. It builds a cone-shaped silk snare, an ant bites the trigger, and the trap flings the ant 30 cm into the air, straight into the spider's web, at about 140 g.
The ballista spider (genus Propostira, species not yet named) is 5 mm long and eats exactly one thing: green tree ants. The ants are aggressive and dangerous, so the trap lets the spider yank one away from the colony before it can call for backup.
The launch peaks at 1,367 m/s squared, roughly 140 times gravity and 15 times the g-forces jet pilots can endure. Gram for gram, the snare stores more energy and exerts more power than any known biological catapult. And the ant sets it off itself, by biting.
It's the only known web built for a single prey species, and the only trap triggered by the prey rather than the predator. Macquarie University researchers published the find in Current Biology this June.
Read more:
https://theconversation.com/this-tiny-australian-spider-uses-a-high-powered-web-catapult-to-trap-and-eat-aggressive-ants-285700
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/ballista-spider-new-discovered-web-traps-green-ants-queensland/106831796
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How to carry your young
A female Dolomedes sulfureus – fishing spider – carefully carries an egg sac in her jaws in a country garden in Sangju, South Korea.
Photograph: Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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🕷️ Pholcus phalangioides (Long-bodied Cellar Spider)
📅 Observed on 2025-08-13
👤 By: pileated
📌 Location: Benton, Oregon, United States
🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334181904
📷 Photo credits: (c) Casey H. Richart, some rights reserved (CC BY)
🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcus_phalangioides
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Got a veritable I Spy situation going on this morning at the swamp milkweed 🕵️
What do you see?
🌱🌿 #nativeplants
🐞🕷️ #invertebrates #insects #spiders #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
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Man almost died and was left in four-day coma after bite by UK spider
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-coma-days-uk-spider-37550441
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@ClimateJenny Fine, you convinced me, I'll dig out a few more, including a mantis nymph. The mother laid 3 ootheca on my patio so her babies could be born near an all you can eat buffet. So many babies in my yard that spring :).
Now I want to know if there's a word for that, predators that steal from predators.
#nature #spiders #preyingMantis #carnivorousPlants #sarracenia
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The sex life of the Australian Redback spider is like something out of a particularly gory horror flick.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-08-12/redback-spiders-backflip-katipo-sex/107022976
