Mastodawn

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

neville park 21h ago

#DailySpiderPic: Just the other day I said to @futurebird that I really wanted to find another male _Philodromus marxi_ and today IT HAPPENED. It was ballooning from the arm of a Muskoka chair by the lake, in the same park where I'd found one years ago.

While most running crab spiders here are grey or brown, made to camouflage against tree bark or in the undergrowth, _P. marxi_ males have shiny iridescent abdomens. I think they are stunningly beautiful.

#bugstodon #spiders #RunningCrabSpiders #Araneae #Philodromidae #ArthroBeauty

neville park 1d ago

#DailySpiderPic: I was thrilled to discover that there is a feather-legged or hackled orbweaver (family Uloboridae) in the lavender plant again this year—surely a child of last year's.

These spiders are unusual in a few ways: they have lost their venom entirely, and they make orb webs with cribellate silk that is fuzzy instead of sticky. (There are many spiders that make orb webs, and many that make cribellate silk, but only this family does both.) They are not rare, but I still think they are interesting.

#ArthroBeauty #spiders #Araneae #Uloboridae

neville park 2d ago

#DailySpiderPic: was curious who occupied this luxurious home so I lifted up the leaf and this male yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) popped out!

#bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae #ArthroBeauty

neville park 5d ago

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

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

Diego Pastor 6d ago

Ero sp. (fam. Mimetidae)

[ES] Típica puesta de huevos de araña pirata. ¿No os da cierta pareidolia?
Son un poco cabroncetas estas arañas, cito de la descripción de Ero tuberculata en aracnidosibericos.com*: «Cazadora de arañas, sus presas suelen ser terididos o araneidos, tocan su tela suavemente para confundirlas y que piensen que ha caído una presa, en ese momento le muerden una pata y le inoculan un potente veneno que las paraliza inmediatamente». De las otras especies del género dice algo parecido.

[EN] Typical egg capsule of a pirate spider. Don't you feel some pareidolia?
From aracnidosibericos.com*: "It's a spider hunter, they prey are usually theridids and araneids, they gently touch their webs to make them think there is a prey trapped and then they bite them on one leg and inject a paralyzing venom".

* https://aracnidosibericos.com/especie/144/Ero_tuberculata

2026/06/05, province of/provincia de Cáceres (Spain)

Equipo/Equipment: Canon EOS 400D + Tamron SP 90 mm f/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1
Primera foto/First photo: ISO 100, s 1/200, f/7,1. Con flash/With flash.
Resto de fotos/Following photos: ISO 1600, s 1/125, f/2,8. Sin flash/Without flash.
Todas a pulso/All handheld.

#araneae #mimetidae #ero
#araña #arañaPirata #spider #spiders #pirateSpider
#arthropods #arthropod #bug #bugs #bicho
#ooteca #ootheca #eggs
#macro #macrofotografía #macrophotography #nature #naturaleza

neville park 6d ago

#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

Nap ízeltlábúja - Arthropod of Jun 2

Tekintsd át a pókok jegyespókok családjába tartozó felhasználói észleléseket: https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/csalad/anyphaenidae/talalatok #pókok #Araneae #jegyespókok #Anyphaenidae #CitizenScience

Anyphaenidae - jegyespókok

A Anyphaenidae - jegyespókok családhoz tartozó észlelések listája

neville park May 31

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