#DailySpiderPic: night spiders!
A couple big _Larinioides_; a silky _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider; and a running crab spider.
Most of the spiders out and about now were born last year and overwintered. They are reaping a plentiful bounty of midges (family Chironomidae), which have begun to emerge.
#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #Araneae #Araneidae #Clubionidae #Philodromidae
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
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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…
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Alopecosa barbipes Klitkæmpejæger
No common name in english
Last day of Arachtober, and it ends with another favourite from my aunt and uncle's garden.
A. barbipes, while not rare in Denmark as such, is not found in my neck of the woods. They prefer areas with sparse vegetation, short turf, and lichen heath.
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#WolfSpider
#Arachtober 30: a lovely female hacklemesh weaver (_Amaurobius cf. ferox_) out in the open one night, rare for them. They spend most of their time in crevices in retreats of fuzzy back-combed silk that extends some way outside, letting them sense prey passing too close. People typically encounter the mature males that go wandering in search of mates and inadvertently end up inside.
The family is closely related to the funnel-weavers (family Agelenidae).
#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae
Xysticus ulmi
Sumpkrabbeedderkop
Swamp crab spider
As promised the plump rotundness that is the female Swamp crab spider
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#CrabSpider
Xysticus ulmi
Sumpkrabbeedderkop
Swamp crab spider
I'll have to post the female tomorrow, because the species is sexually dimorphic. They look nothing alike, but both deserve to be shown off.
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#CrabSpider
#Arachtober 29: didn't have time for a proper spider outing, so hopped over the garden wall to see what I could find in the yard—and almost walked right through this cross orbweaver's web strung between the dead coneflowers and columbines! As you can hopefully see in the close-up, her jaws are full of a big lump of mushed-up bugs.
#Arachtober 28: clover mite (_Bryobia_) in a bright patch of lichen.
#ArthroBeauty #LichenSubscribe #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #CloverMites #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae
Pardosa sp
Tyndbenet Jagtedderkop
Thin-legged Wolf Spider
Wolf spiders are some of my favourite spiders, mainly because they are ubiquitous and often right proper little camera darlings. Well, once they stop running, that is.
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neville park
Natteheks