#Arachtober 8: these small, delicate dish-shaped webs are made by mesh-web weavers, family Linyphiidae. Look for a small smooth spider with thin tapered legs hanging upside down, waiting to size any small insects that fall onto the web.
#Arachtober 24: a juvenile male _Hypselistes florens_, a very charming and unusually colourful erigonine. Not to be confused with the similarly named (and similar-looking!) orbweaver _Hypsosinga_.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Linyphiidae #Erigoninae #macro
Yesterday after the torrential rain I went to High Park hoping to find the _Cladonia_ again, but I got sidetracked and ended up at the other end of the park at a stone wall full of hacklemesh weavers (family Amaurobiidae).
However there were also other spiders—funnel weavers, I think, or else very funnel-weaver-like amaurobiids—and the small sheet-web weavers.
#SpiderSunday #DailySpiderPic #spiders #Araneae #Amaurobiidae #Agelenidae? #Linyphiidae #macro
A delightful little #OpenAccess paper from Gustavo Hormiga (who, despite his name, is an arachnologist) and William G. Eberhard, on the surprising diversity of linyphiid and pimoid spiderwebs. Includes many photos of some fantastic spider architecture.
https://doi.org/10.3099/MCZ75
Also featuring this fantastic line…