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The Naturalist Bot @naturalist_bot@hachyderm.io · 1d ago

🕷️ Amaurobius jugorum 📅 Observed on 2025-07-23 👤 By: jtch 📌 Location: 4280 Log, Slovénie 🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335863965 📷 Photo credits: (c) Julien Tchilinguirian, some rights reserved (CC BY) 🔎 Learn more about the taxon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaurobius_jugorum #iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Spiders

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The Naturalist Bot @naturalist_bot@hachyderm.io · 1d ago

🕷️ Alpiscorpius sigma 📅 Observed on 2025-07-23 👤 By: jtch 📌 Location: 4280 Log, Slovénie 🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335863972 📷 Photo credits: (c) Julien Tchilinguirian, some rights reserved (CC BY) #iNaturalist #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Spiders

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neville park @nev@flipping.rocks · 1d ago

Apropos of nothing 😇 , there is a species of recluse spider, _Loxosceles coheni_, named after legendary Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen. From an Entomology Today article by one of the scientists (https://entomologytoday.org/2021/01/08/new-species-recluse-spider-named-for-leonard-cohen/) "I have been listening to Cohen’s music since a rather young age, especially more so during the recent years, which certainly helped with working during the cold, dark, and long winters of Finland, where I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Turku. The phrase 'burning violin' that we used in the title of the article is a pun: First, it is a reference to Leonard Cohen’s famous song 'Dance Me to The End of Love', and, second, it refers to the violin-shaped marking on the cephalothorax of these spiders (hence the common name 'violin spiders') and the 'burning' nature of their venom, which in some cases can cause severe dermonecrosis, often leaving a permanent scar behind. I liken Cohen’s music to the venom of recluse spiders: It doesn’t affect everyone, but those who are affected by it carry a scar for the rest of their lives." Paper: "‘Burning Violin’: The Medically Important Spider Genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, With Two New Species", _Journal of Medical Entomology_ (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa257

#taxonomy #spiders #Araneae #Sicariidae #CanCon

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Jen C Mars @jencmars@mastodon.art · 5d ago

Unrequited spider love This is a pair of flea jumping spiders (Naphrys pulex). I found the male first, on a pine tree, and he led me to the female. He was on the hunt for a mate, but she was more interested in a meal than company Ultimately, he lived to woo another day, so I'd still call it a win #spider #spiders #MacroPhotography

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Jen C Mars @jencmars@mastodon.art · 5d ago

Replying to @jencmars@mastodon.art

It's hard sometimes with macro to convey the scale of the animals I'm photographing. These little spiders measure around 2mm long, quite tiny! #spider #spiders #MacroPhotography

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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 14, 2026

watch out for those rampaging rapacious daddy-longlegs... they have great big pointy teeth n a mean streak a mile wide 😱 https://newatlas.com/biology/daddy-longlegs-catch-and-eat-frogs/ #spiders

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung@mstdn.io · Jun 29, 2026

"In the tropical rainforests of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, we discovered a spider with a new hunting strategy […] As we describe in a paper published today in Current Biology, it constructs a unique spring-loaded snare triggered only by a single kind of prey: the highly territorial and aggressive green tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina)." https://theconversation.com/this-tiny-australian-spider-uses-a-high-powered-web-catapult-to-trap-and-eat-aggressive-ants-285700 #Spiders #Ants #Hunting #Webs #Nature

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

@markwyner@mas.to · Jun 21, 2026

Y’all. I almost died right now. I was sitting here peacefully, writing code and listening to Bolt Thrower. Things were calm and enjoyable. Then I noticed a gigantic (like the size of Mothra) spider walking across the armrest. I freaked and went to brush it off, so it would be gone, but then it launched into my lap because it had latched onto me with a web. My chair has a foot rest that’s electronic, so I couldn’t get out of the chair. I almost threw my computer across the room trying to escape. I was trying to save my computer and escape all at once and now I don’t know where it is and it’s probably in the cracks of the chair waiting for me to feel secure before it crawls out and wraps me up in a cocoon and drains my blood and east me for a snack later tonight when all I wanted to do was chill holy shit WTF. #Spiders #Arachnophobia #NearDeathExperience