A Pseudoscorpion A Pseudoscorpion A Pseudoscorpion A Morel Mushroom, the Pseudoscorpions Fungal Ecosystem My friend Dan certainly likes nature. It takes a good eye to notice a pseudoscorpion, most are under 4mm in length (biggest is 12mm). Dan was washing off his morning take of Morel mushrooms, which are booming here in...
categories: ARACHNIDS, Pseudoscorpions
Sheetweb Spider Sheetweb Spider Sheetweb Spider Originally posted as potentially being a Mimetidae pirate spider, that eats other spiders. . .I think this was overruled at the whiz’s at Bugguide.net, and this is their first NY record for a Pityohyphantes Sheet Web Spider. A first for me, and evidently a mildly exciting...
Velvet Mite Velvet Mite Velvet Mite, <1/8" Along Side a Thyme Leaf Can a mite be beautiful? This is a true arachnid, the Trombidium sp. Red Velvet Mite in the family Trombidiidae. A predator at this stage of the game usually less then 1/8 inch long, it lives the first part of its live as an ecto-parasite (clinging...
Spider Negotiating Surface Tension on Vernal Pool Spider Negotiating Surface Tension on Vernal Pool As If Caught in A World Just Above A Lunar Landscape Pausing to Bend Just a Bit, to Clean a Hind Leg Shadows of Leg Tips Transform Into Large Spots on the Bottom of the Pool A call from a friend in the southern part of New York,...
Welcome 150+ Spiderlings Into the World ! Black and Yellow Garden Spiders Emerge From Their Egg Case
Adult Female Black and Yellow Agriope (Garden Spider) Adult Female Black and Yellow Agriope (Garden Spider) Egg Case Suspended at Left inside Meadow Sweet Leaves Hatchlings Cluster Together Pattern on Dorsal Surface of Abdomen Ventral Dorsal This summer the wetlands behind our house held up to 20 adult female Black and Yellow...
Cellar Spider Cellar Spider Cellar Spider With 20 inches or so outside my door, and more to come, and the temperature right now -2 F, in the last few days I have been continuing to key out the spiders that are living in and around the homes I visit. This is met with some consternation of course, but often, I’ll hear “....
Common House Spider After a Warm Up Common House Spider Dormant at About 32 F Female Common House Spider with Egg Sacs It seems a bit funny that the creature I found outside as the temperature is dropping rapidly here, from 50 F or so down into the 30′s, should be the Common House Spider of North America that should after...
Tropical Orb WeaverTropical Orb Weaver An Araenid Orb Weaver Spider, strikes a great angular prismatic pose against the soft green of a epiphyte in the jungles of Costa Rica. Placement of a good web is what is all about, and this one is in prime insect flight territory, right between the axis of several leaves- a great narrow...
categories: SPIDERS
Interesting Spider, Interesting Capture Update The ladybird beetle is for sure the fourteen spot ladybug, Propylea quatuordecimpunctata, which got ensnared in a small web builder- possibly in the Spider Genus Theridion. While the web here seems small, we have to flash back a bit and think that this web might have been a bit...
categories: ARACHNIDS, Beetles (Coleoptera)
Crab Spider with Stink Bug Prey Little Flies Following Spider After it Takes Prey!! Latest Post VERY COOL updates for this sequence I caught. The spider appears to be a Xysticus sps., don’t have the stink bug ID’d for sure yet. But here’s the thing. The little flies are there for a PURPOSE. They are...
categories: SPIDERS
