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April 24th, 2012

zadok_allen

07:35 pm Daring Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) attempting a competitive eating record with an Eastern Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum). Anyone feel free to correct me if I got that ID wrong :-)

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October 8th, 2011

tamago23

09:49 pm - D'awww Saw this on I Can Haz Cheezburger and thought some of you might appreciate it. :)

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June 29th, 2011

tamago23

05:27 pm - Cute macro I Can Haz Cheezburger posted an adorable jumping spider macro. Not sure if it's 'shopped, but either way, it's really cute.

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June 26th, 2011

scowling_hermit

11:14 am - Safe in the burrow Thought you guys might enjoy this photo I took in one of my flowerbeds: a Burrowing Wolf Spider in her burrow.

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May 20th, 2011

zadok_allen

01:27 pm - in the garden (with prey) My first guess was a juvenile argiope, but now I'm thinking more along the lines of a Leucauge orchard spider. She had a horizontal web. I really have no idea what it is, other than pretty. Any suggestions?

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March 6th, 2011

tamago23

05:53 pm - I know it's a long shot, but... While checking out a site about storm drains I came across this picture, featuring one of some white spiders they'd come across in a storm drain. They refer to them as the "White Spiders of Doom", and have no idea what they are. (As they put it, "The Dread Spider itself. This is the only photo we have of one, and the only photo we've managed to find of one anywhere, ever. Yay?") This would be somewhere in southern Ontario, Canada. I thought I was fairly well-educated on this area's spiders but I can't recall any that have long, prominently knobbed legs like that. Any ideas what this creature might be?

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February 16th, 2011

nonspecific

09:41 am - Mosquito-eating spider likes smelly socks Wow, this is awesome!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9398000/9398408.stm Cross-posted to arachnophillic . Current Mood: impressed Current Music: LCD Soundsystem - Thrills

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September 10th, 2010

scowling_hermit

04:38 pm - What a good mama... Today I spied a mama Fishing Spider and her newly hatched babies among some Goldenrod flowers. ( A couple more photos ) x-posted to welovespiders

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August 21st, 2010

tamago23

10:34 am - Toronto Star article with jumping spiders The newspaper The Toronto Star posted an awesome photo blog today that featured professional macro shots of jumping spiders. Here it is. xposted to spiderphotos

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April 8th, 2010

darlingfreak

09:00 pm - Mysterious death of Spiderbaby Ok... so, I'm going to take a shower. I turn on the water. A second later I see a tiny, delicate looking little spiderling in the water. I grab a comb, put it under the spider, and lift it out. But it's wet, and its legs are all stuck together and it looks like a bit of wet thread. Thinking it's probably too small to fight surface tension, and that the water around it is still drowning it, I lightly touch the edge of a piece of toilet paper to it to suck up the water. But to no avail. Spiderbaby is dead. Now, what I don't get is, why did being under water a few seconds kill spiderbaby? The water hadn't had time to get hot. It wasn't scalded. Did the lack of an internal skeleton make his organ scramble when he was weightless in water? What? I'm actually curious.

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