#SpiderSunday: several of the spiders I met on that one warm day last week! A running crab spider (_Philodromus_), a bold jumping spider (_Phidippus audax_), some kind of crab spider in tribe Coriarachnini (_Bassaniana_?), and a good old zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_) with what looks like most of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae).

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Got some footage of a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing her silk to make it fuzzy!

It doesn't just tangle up insects; several years ago research showed the silk melds with the waxy coating of some insect cuticles on the molecular level. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363  

https://youtu.be/UvYdfoO4tZE

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Conifer cones are like high-rises for tiny spiders. Every one holds countless silk apartments, some with spiders still inside, like the dictynid in the last picture.

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From my Ontario Place visit a couple weeks ago: a tiny spiderling ballooning from a fence post, on an unseasonably warm afternoon. #Araneidae? #Dictynidae?

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A little mesh-web weaver (family #Dictynidae), out and about on a late January day down by the lake. The patterns on their abdomen are so mesmerizing, don't you think?

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