Spiders

[Bill W]

21 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

 

Red Widows' Bites Are Very Painful

Living in the southern and central parts of Florida, Red Widow Spiders tend to make their homes in sand dunes. Considering Florida has a lot of sand, this isn't great for the locals.

Red Widows' venom is just as strong and painful as its relatives, the Black and Brown Widows, but they are smaller and don't expel quite as much.

 

 

 

That's a good reason why you should avoid Florida, or at least not lie around on the beaches.  I know the black widow kills its mate, but I wonder if the brown and red widows also kill their mates.  If so, it would be a good reason for the males of those three species to be gay.  

[sandrewn]

 

 

 

 

For centuries, symmetry has remained a subject that has fascinated philosophers, astronomers, mathematicians, artists, architects, and physicists.

 

 

[Bill W]

11 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

 

And this spider is wearing a skull on the outside of its body.  Where are the crossbones, aargh? 

[Bill W]

14 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

 

 

 

For centuries, symmetry has remained a subject that has fascinated philosophers, astronomers, mathematicians, artists, architects, and physicists.

 

 

Neat looking webs, but the bottom photo looks as if the spiders are trying to spin records on the web.  

[sandrewn]

When the moon hits your eye / With a bright blue-green shine / That's A. mooreae

 

 

Jumping Spider in nest

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2023 by sandrewn

[Bill W]

7 hours ago, sandrewn said:

When the moon hits your eye / With a bright blue-green shine / That's A. mooreae

 

Cute, taking an old Dean Martin song, That's Amore, and changing it for this purpose. 

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. 

[Bill W]

7 hours ago, sandrewn said:

 

Jumping Spider in nest

 

What's that round thing off to its right.  Is that its own horn it can blow? 

[Bill W]

7 hours ago, sandrewn said:

 

7 hours ago, sandrewn said:

This guy certainly has more guts than I do! 

 

[sandrewn]

The Himalayan jumping spider can live at elevations greater than 20,000 feet. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.

Himalayan Jumping Spider Euophrys Omnisuperstes Species fact sheet - Jumping Spider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am still having problems posting images here, it is still a work in progress🤞

[Bill W]

5 hours ago, sandrewn said:

The Himalayan jumping spider can live at elevations greater than 20,000 feet. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.

Himalayan Jumping Spider Euophrys Omnisuperstes Species fact sheet - Jumping Spider

 

This spider better hope that the wind doesn't stop blowing or that it blows so hard that it lifts it into the stratosphere.  

 

[Bill W]

5 hours ago, sandrewn said:

 

 

 

 

 

Is the spider sticking its tongue out to us in the top photo, and the bottom photo looks more like a crab than a spider.   Do you think they're interbreeding? 

[Bill W]

5 hours ago, sandrewn said:

I am still having problems posting images here, it is still a work in progress🤞

This looks more like a child's toy than an actual spider.  Isn't that a candlestick I'm seeing on its front?  Mustard spider in the billard room with the candlestick.   

[sandrewn]

Check the small spider, this was taken in Seychelles

(I have nothing else on this one)

 

 

 

TIL of the museum infested with the Chilean Recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta), widely considered to be the most venomous of its kind. The museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, is located in Helsinki & no one is sure how the spider, native to South & Central America, came into

 

I'll keep trying to get the posting & copying  back to the way it was🤞🤞🤞

[Bill W]

24 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Check the small spider, this was taken in Seychelles

(I have nothing else on this one)

 

Damn, talk about a daddy long-legs.  This might be the king of them all. 

[Bill W]

25 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Now that's a thick web.  It's almost as well constructed as an Afghan.  

[sandrewn]

 

 

Sometimes words fail me.

This is definitely one of those times!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

[Bill W]

1 hour ago, sandrewn said:

 

Sometimes words fail me.

This is definitely one of those times!!!!

 

 

I wouldn't want to get bitten by those.  I hope they're not its baby fangs. 

[sandrewn]

Dew on a Spider Web

 

 

Frozen Spider Web

 

 

 

Barbed Wire Web

 

 

[Bill W]

56 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Dew on a Spider Web

 

 

Frozen Spider Web

 

 

 

Barbed Wire Web

Think of all the work that went into making those webs, and yet a strong wind that kicks up a lot of debris or a kid with a stick can take them down in seconds.  

[sandrewn]

Thorned heart orb weaver, Micrathena clypeata

from Ecuador

 

Kite biscuit orb weaver (Isoxya tabulata)

from Mozambique ?

 

Mangrove Jumping Spider

Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well-developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (hemolymph) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. Most jumping spiders can jump several times the length of their bodies. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk (or 'dragline') to whatever it is standing on to protect itself if the jump should fail. Should it fall, for example if the prey shakes it off, it climbs back up the silk tether. Some species, such as Portia, will actually let themselves down to attack prey such as a web spider apparently secure in the middle of its web. Like many other spiders that leave practically continuous silk trails, jumping spiders impregnate the silk line with pheromones that play a role in social and reproductive communication, and possibly in navigation.

Certain species of jumping spiders have been shown by experiment to be capable of learning, recognizing, and remembering colors, and adapting their hunting behavior accordingly.

 

 

[Bill W]

8 hours ago, sandrewn said:

Thorned heart orb weaver, Micrathena clypeata

from Ecuador

 

Kite biscuit orb weaver (Isoxya tabulata)

from Mozambique ?

 

Mangrove Jumping Spider

Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well-developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (hemolymph) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. Most jumping spiders can jump several times the length of their bodies. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk (or 'dragline') to whatever it is standing on to protect itself if the jump should fail. Should it fall, for example if the prey shakes it off, it climbs back up the silk tether. Some species, such as Portia, will actually let themselves down to attack prey such as a web spider apparently secure in the middle of its web. Like many other spiders that leave practically continuous silk trails, jumping spiders impregnate the silk line with pheromones that play a role in social and reproductive communication, and possibly in navigation.

Certain species of jumping spiders have been shown by experiment to be capable of learning, recognizing, and remembering colors, and adapting their hunting behavior accordingly.

Now those are some unusual looking spiders.  The top one almost looks like a strawberry and the bottom one as a biscuit, as its name implies.  The top two also have some nasty looking spikes sticking off the side of their abdomen (at least that's what part of the body I think those are).  Looking at the bottom spider head on, it almost looks like a common house fly at first, but I pity the prey that gets too close.  

Edited August 15, 2023 by Bill W

[sandrewn]

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Toadlike Bolas Spider (Mastophora phrynosoma)

 

 

[TalonRider]

I recently watched a Ytube video that has segment with a spider chasing the curser around the screen.

[Bill W]

5 hours ago, sandrewn said:

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Yes, put out the walnuts and then enjoy all of the bugs that the spiders didn't kill and eat.  

 

[Bill W]

5 hours ago, sandrewn said:

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If I remember correctly, outdoor spiders don't do well inside the house and inside spiders don't do well outside due to the different types of feet they have.  If that's the case, then it seems as if this remedy is of little use, except to the companies that make the products you'd use in that concoction.