Notices tagged with arachtober

#Arachtober day 28: a lovely wolf spider (Trochosa sp.?) found while rock flipping. She ran off before I could get a second photo so I'm really glad this one turned out decent! #DailySpiderPic

#Arachtober day 27: meet the stunningly beautiful arabesque orbweaver, Neoscona arabesca. So far I've just found them around Humber Bay Park, where this photo was taken a month ago. #DailySpiderPic

#Arachtober day 25: I don't think I've done a pirate spider so far! Spiders in this family, Mimetidae, specialize in eating other spiders, plucking at webs to lure out the occupants. I think this one is probably Mimetus puritanus. Only a few mm long in body length, found under a milkweed leaf in the garden. #DailySpiderPic

#Arachtober day 24: this is from about a month ago, at the height of Zygiella mating season. Males hang at the periphery of females' webs, patiently plucking out courtship songs. Returning home one night, I saw one single-minded suitor had fallen prey to a young male yellow sac spider! Look at his face in the last pic, like, "...What??"

#DailySpiderPic

Belated #Arachtober day 23: leetle spider, hacklemesh weaver I think, back-combing silk. Found that night when someone's fucking car alarm kept going off and I wandered the neighbourhood at like 3 A.M. to find the car and leave an angry note.

Video: https://twitter.com/neville_park/status/1187243813502361600

#Arachtober day 22: little zebra jumping spider looks meditative as she eats an aphid and idly scratches herself. Link bc video! https://twitter.com/neville_park/status/1186750101655560194

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#Arachtober day 21: more of the hacklemesh weavers that live in the Queen & Dufferin underpass. They can be found by looking for their distinctive fuzzy webbing. I also saw signs of New Democrats, of which there's a very healthy local population. #dailyspiderpic #elxn43

#Arachtober day 20: the best thing I saw on tonight's walk was two red velvet mites sharing an aphid, "Lady and the Tramp"-style.

#Arachtober day 18: "Okay little buddy, you killed it, it's dead." Luring out a fierce little hacklemesh weaver with a feather taped to a sonic toothbrush. Try it at home! (Linking bc it's a video.) https://twitter.com/neville_park/status/1185211176017448961

#Arachtober day 17: "What's this?" A Larinioides orbweaver examines my finger. When bored I will poke at them or put my finger in their way, and in all my years of doing this, not a single one has bitten me. They either run away, or quickly figure out the finger is not food and lose interest. #DailySpiderPic

#Arachtober day 16: daily Larinioides pic #DailySpiderPic

#Arachtober day 14: nothing says "autumn" like harvies (opilionids) in goldenrod! Second pic is the area I found it, the little stretch of shore between the Boulevard Club and the Legion.

#Arachtober day 13: a snout mite (family Bdellidae) found under a fallen piece of willow bark. I liked the contrast between the bluish lichen and the red-orange mite glowing in the afternoon sun.

#Arachtober day 12: a sheet-web weaver, family Linyphiidae. These spiders can be very small and their finely woven webs are often low down, suspended in long grass or hollows in trees. #DailySpiderPic 🐘

#Arachtober day 11: male Zygiella! I think Z. atrica because of those long pedipalps but I'm not sure. #DailySpiderPic 🐘

An International Jumping Spider Day bonus: cute li'l Salticus scenicus I saw yesterday

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#Arachtober day 10: how sad, it is #jumpingspiderday and all I have is a photo of this ant. This perfectly normal ant with six legs and two antennae. Just don't look too closely... #DailySpiderPic #DailyAntPic 🐘