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Watch the extraordinary courtship dance of Australia’s peacock spider by @GrrlScientist@mstdn.science via #Medium #Spiders #jumpingSpiders #PeacockSpiders #Evolution #Taxonomy #video #SciComm

Lots of lovely shots. "For three weeks in February 2026 I was in the highlands of Angola — the plateau that feeds the Okavango, Zambezi, Congo and Cuanza rivers — on a biodiversity survey called the Cassai Life Atlas. […] Most of this plateau has never been surveyed, and not for lack of interest — it’s been sitting behind decades of landmines left over from Angola’s civil war." https://www.nickybay.com/cassai-life-atlas-angola-2026/ #Africa #Angola #Spiders #Insects #Snakes #Surveys #Biodiversity

#summer #zomer #autumn #herfst #nature #natuur #wasps #wespen #spiders #spinnen #bugs #wantsen #nederlandsenatuur #macrophotography

Just out of curiosity… do you let house spiders live? Or do you swat them dead? #spiders

Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-event.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

Ok- this is a bit over 2 minutes long and if you don’t like #spiders scroll on. This jumping spider lives in my studio and took a walk on my monitor this morning. I noticed it reacted as I was moving my cursor …. Peaceful interaction and interesting to see when it noticed the movement! #Eyes-everywhere!!! #Pincers-pinching!

Common streeeeetch spider #spider #spiders #arachnid #MacroPhotography

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🕷️ 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

🕷️ 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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

Just some goldenrod. #bloomscrolling #spiders #thomisidae #goldenrod