Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm spending Friday night watching spider videos

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a very odd looking spider. Megabunus diadema from https://twitter.com/gamekeeper68

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm spending the afternoon on spider twitter.

From https://twitter.com/AllBugsGo2Kevin

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Wolf spider from https://twitter.com/JoGregoWildlife

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yellow crab spider from https://twitter.com/lorrainebirder

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Crab spider from https://twitter.com/TheKae9

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jumping spider from the Isle of Mull from https://twitter.com/OW_Photography

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jumping spider from https://twitter.com/7thDayImages

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jumping spider from https://twitter.com/TimothyJonas

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nice web from https://twitter.com/singaporemacro

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Araniella opisthographa aka the cucumber spider from https://twitter.com/FeraScience

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A spitting spider from https://twitter.com/Arthur59611540. The wiki description of how it catches it's prey is nice

Scytodidae catch their prey by spitting a fluid that congeals on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. The fluid contains both venom and spider silk in liquid form, though it is produced in venom glands in the chelicerae. The venom-laced silk both immobilizes and envenoms prey such as silverfish. In high-speed footage the spiders can be observed swaying from side to side as they "spit", catching the prey in a crisscrossed "Z" pattern; it is criss-crossed because each of the chelicerae emits half of the pattern. The spider usually strikes from a distance of 10 to 20 millimetres (0.39 to 0.79 in) and the entire attack sequence only lasts 1/700th of a second.[3] After making the capture, the spider typically bites the prey with venomous effect, and wraps it in the normal spider fashion with silk from the spinnerets.[4]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

From https://twitter.com/davidha60766557

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And a happy wee spider.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a pretty spider - stalking Huntsman (Thelcticopis sp.). Hefty strong legs. From https://twitter.com/gotlegsmacro

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A peacock spider from https://twitter.com/Weird_AnimaIs

 

[moochedit]

From https://twitter.com/davidha60766557

It's got it's bollocks hanging off it's face what's that all about?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's got it's bollocks hanging off it's face what's that all about?

They're full of venom - enough to take out a human.

 

[moochedit]

They're full of venom - enough to take out a human.

I'm gonna have nightmares about spider bollock venom now

 

[gentlegreen]

I noticed yesterday that my big female eratigena atricas were on the move, but this morning, this little chap greeted me when I was making coffee....
Annoyingly, by the time I fetched my phone, he'd turned his back so you can't see his palps ...

 

[kalidarkone]

Had a visitor this morning.....managed to send her in the right direction out the window.....she pretended to be dead...then when I wasn't looking left ....biggest spider I've seen for a long time...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's a lovely spider kalidarkone - what it's name?

 

[kalidarkone]

That's a lovely spider kalidarkone - what it's name?

Boudicca

 

[moose]

Met this cutie last night

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Met this cutie last night

You know the drill - what's it's name?

 

[moose]

You know the drill - what's it's name?

I think he said Cecil, but he had a slight lisp.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I wonder what is lurking in this volcanic caldera moochedit.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A nice video about lovely spiders.

 

[moochedit]

I wonder what is lurking in this volcanic caldera moochedit.

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I'm not gonna look in it!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm not gonna look in it!

It's a still from a video I saw yesterday - the spider leaps out at great speed to pounce on it's victim. Impressive to watch how quickly they can strike.