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,...

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 “....

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...

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...

Pisaurina mira Pisaurina mira Pisaurina mira This turned out to be via a bugguide.net classification as Pisaurina mira, in the Pisuridae Nursery Web Spider family.  It actually matures into a spider I know well, but never had seen an earlier instar (pre adult).  Here is a good look at an adult P. mira color morph. There is...

Ant Mimic Jumping Spider Ant Mimic Jumping Spider Ant Mimic Jumping Spider I did some image searching, and found a great match for this species at bugguide.net- and also the field guide here to be satisfied (with the added affirmation from a spider photographer) that this is almost certainly Synemosyna formica, and is one of...

Double Stripe Spider Double Stripe Spider Double Stripe Spider Great day, worked outdoors, many creatures out- 60 degrees F.   Gettin’ images up till full ID.  This is crab spider type, it was roaming and hunting.  Amazing patterns!  Enjoy this arachnid, it was smaller then a pea!!  Best! NG.

Impressive Brown Spider Closeup This turned out to be a Hacklemesh Weaver spider in the family Amaurobiidae, which are closely related to funnel web spiders, but their webs are not as well designed, a partial funnel.  I’ll hopefully get a genus and species to this cool thing in time.  Another new family for me- so happy. ...

Naphrys sp. Jumping Spider? Jumping spiders, Salticidae (we would call them “the Salticids”), are a great spider family for study, without about 500+ genera alone worldwide.  They capture the imagination because- bottom line- they look AT YOU.  They appear curious.  Their visual acuity is amazing, and they have...