Spiders

[Bill W]

2 hours ago, sandrewn said:

big-eyed jumping spider from W-Java - Yellow-lined Epeus

This male spider (6-7mm) was attracted by a small white moth sitting on the same leaf: www.flickr.com/photos/gbohne/5270341074/ Epeus flavobilineatus DOLESCHALL, 1859 (Yellow-lined Epeus), male [det. Mr & Mrs Apteryx australis, 2010, based on this photo] Genus: Epeus PECKHAM & PECKHAM, 1886 Subfamily: Plexippinae BLACKWALL, 1841 (unranked clade: Salticoida) Family: Salticidae BLACKWALL, 1842 (jumping spiders, Springspinnen) Superfamily: Salticoidea Suborder: Araneomorphae (Echte Webspinnen) Order: Araneae (spiders, Webspinnen oder Echte Spinnen) Class: Arachnida CUVIER, 1812 (Spinnentiere) Subphylum: Chelicerata Phylum: Arthropoda more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeus_%28spider%29 more: www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/diagnost/epeus/flavobil.htm Indonesia, W-Java, 10 km S Tangerang: vic. Serpong (Kampung garden).

The Lean Green Big-Eyed Jumping Machine.  

[sandrewn]

Green Pea Spider (Araneus apricus)

Manyane Resort Walking Trail, Pilanesberg NP, North West, SOUTH AFRICA

 

 

[Bill W]

16 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Green Pea Spider (Araneus apricus)

Manyane Resort Walking Trail, Pilanesberg NP, North West, SOUTH AFRICA

Green Pea Spider?  Peas are darker in color.  I'd have called it the Jade spider, because it would look great in the forehead of a Buddhist statue.  

[sandrewn]

How ‘vampire’ spiders with a love of human blood could combat malaria

There's a species of jumping spider that lives on the walls of people's homes and feeds on human blood. But researchers believe that's a good thing.

How ‘vampire’ spiders with a love of human blood could combat malaria - National | Globalnews.ca

 

[Bill W]

1 hour ago, sandrewn said:

How ‘vampire’ spiders with a love of human blood could combat malaria

There's a species of jumping spider that lives on the walls of people's homes and feeds on human blood. But researchers believe that's a good thing.

How ‘vampire’ spiders with a love of human blood could combat malaria - National | Globalnews.ca

1 hour ago, sandrewn said:

Now that's a scary looking spider, even upside down, being all black with a red face (head ?) and those big black eyes, even though the vampire spider is upside down.  And this post leads to a problem.   Although the vampire spider doesn't actually live on human blood and merely dines on mosquitoes that suck human blood and possibly carry malaria (in some regions of the world).  Would you rather live in a house filled with vampire spiders to kill those mosquitoes for you or would you rather take the risk of getting malaria?  

[sandrewn]

5 hours ago, Bill W said:

Now that's a scary looking spider, even upside down, being all black with a red face (head ?) and those big black eyes, even though the vampire spider is upside down.  And this post leads to a problem.   Although the vampire spider doesn't actually live on human blood and merely dines on mosquitoes that suck human blood and possibly carry malaria (in some regions of the world).  Would you rather live in a house filled with vampire spiders to kill those mosquitoes for you or would you rather take the risk of getting malaria?  

 

I will answer by saying, I did two tours (almost 2 years) in the Middle East(UN). UNEF II (EGYPT) & UNDOF (Israel). I never once, missed taking my anti malarial pills (every Thursday)

 

Note: Later tests showed that I had come in contact with the disease.

[Bill W]

45 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

 

I will answer by saying, I did two tours (almost 2 years) in the Middle East(UN). UNEF II (EGYPT) & UNDOF (Israel). I never once, missed taking my anti malarial pills (every Thursday)

 

Note: Later tests showed that I had come in contact with the disease.

At least you didn't have to live in a room filled with vampire spiders when you where in those countries, and I'm glad the contact with malaria wasn't fatal.   

[sandrewn]

Haplopelma Minax - thai black tarentula

 

 

A wild-looking two-spined Amazonian harvestman (Protimesius sp, Stygnidae)

Bigal River Forest Reserve, Sumaco NP, Ecuador

 

 

[Bill W]

15 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Haplopelma Minax - thai black tarentula

 

 

A wild-looking two-spined Amazonian harvestman (Protimesius sp, Stygnidae)

Bigal River Forest Reserve, Sumaco NP, Ecuador

16 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Haplopelma Minax - thai black tarentula

 

 

A wild-looking two-spined Amazonian harvestman (Protimesius sp, Stygnidae)

Bigal River Forest Reserve, Sumaco NP, Ecuador

I can barely see the black tarantula peeking out of what looks like a tree branch or a piece of bamboo.  The Amazonian harvestman spider looks like a red ant with extremely long legs, and it even appears that there are more than eight legs on it.  

[sandrewn]

Cyriopagopus lividus (Cobalt Blue Tarantula)

 

 

[Bill W]

1 hour ago, sandrewn said:

Cyriopagopus lividus (Cobalt Blue Tarantula)

Man, that is mean looking and could actually pass for something that may have come from another planet.  It's a very attractive color, though.  

[Mancunian]

4 hours ago, sandrewn said:

Cyriopagopus lividus (Cobalt Blue Tarantula)

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Bill W said:

Man, that is mean looking and could actually pass for something that may have come from another planet.  It's a very attractive color, though.  

I'm constantly amazed at the unique photos of spiders that @sandrewn finds and posts. Some photographers must have the patience of a saint to get such high-quality photos.

[Bill W]

Just now, Mancunian said:

 

I'm constantly amazed at the unique photos of spiders that @sandrewn finds and posts. Some photographers must have the patience of a saint to get such high-quality photos.

Both of those observations are very true.  @sandrewn posts some incredible photos of spiders and tarantulas, and the photographers that take the photos must have a great deal of patience.  However, I can't see that there would be much money in a profession of taking photos of arachnids.  

[sandrewn]

Wow, thank you both, very much. Incentive enough for me to keep going.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bill W]

6 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Wow, thank you both, very much. Incentive enough for me to keep going.

 

Now when are the male Black Widow spiders going to figure this out and start doing the same thing? 

[Bill W]

11 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

Yes, we have brown recluse spiders in Georgia and they are the ones that worry me the most.  I check my shoes and slippers every time before I put them on. 

And @sandrewn, you're welcome.  We appreciate the effort you put into these posts.  I've learned a lot from them, such as stay away from Australia, hehehe.  

Edited November 17, 2023 by Bill W

[Mancunian]

3 hours ago, sandrewn said:

Wow, thank you both, very much. Incentive enough for me to keep going.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't like spiders but I'm not scared of them either, except for the venomous ones. Luckily here in the UK we don't have any native venomous spiders and hope it stays that way. But I find this thread very interesting and informative and I always wonder what you will be posting next.

[sandrewn]

 

 

[Zombie]

On 11/17/2023 at 9:09 AM, Mancunian said:

I'm not scared of them… Luckily here in the UK we don't have any native venomous spiders and hope it stays that way

two teensy weensy potential problemettes with your fearlessness 

- foreign travel Spider Defence Plans in place? 
- French invaders  currently bed bugs, spiders next…?  

[sandrewn]

This one is a repeat, in case you missed it the first time.

 

 

 

 

[sandrewn]

The Fen Raft Spider

One of Britain’s largest arachnids has been brought back from the brink of extinction. Which is bad news for pond skaters and water beetles.

Lock up your fish, the fen raft spider is back | Patrick Barkham | The Guardian

 

 

(It might be old news, but it is new news to me.)

Edited November 20, 2023 by sandrewn

[Bill W]

7 hours ago, sandrewn said:

The Fen Raft Spider

One of Britain’s largest arachnids has been brought back from the brink of extinction. Which is bad news for pond skaters and water beetles.

Lock up your fish, the fen raft spider is back | Patrick Barkham | The Guardian

(It might be old news, but it is new news to me.)

This spider looks like an octopus with an elongated body, rather than a bulbous body.  Pretty coloring, though. 

[sandrewn]

(One of my all time favorites)

 

 

 

[Bill W]

30 minutes ago, sandrewn said:

(One of my all time favorites)

Not an image I wanted stuck in my brain.  I know a cockroach can stay underwater for a half hour, but I didn't know a spider could remain under water, or another liquid, for any length of time.  

[sandrewn]

Spider, Eustala sp. with red mites