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Ok but way would someone pay you to stop doing this? It's so cool and fascinating
SPIDER RAIN
let me introduce you to a few 100% real, totally unphotoshopped photos!
yep, that is REAL! spider rain EXISTS! and is a regular phenomenon! that happens and is documented! and involves MILLIONS of spiders!!!!! RAINING DOWN ON CITIES!!!!! THAT’S A REAL THING THAT HAPPENS UNAVOIDABLY!!!!!!!!!! i need to foam at the mouth in hysteria for a few minutes, but when I calm down i’ll give you some Spider Rain Science Facts
Red-and-Black Spiders - Kidding Right?
Members of the spider family Nicodamidae are, like the peacock spiders (previous post), a part of the charismatic and distinctive spider fauna of the Australian region. The are frequently encountered on the ground, in leaf litter and woody debris, or under the bark of eucalypt trees. In Australia where most of the world’s approximately 30 species are found the red-and-black spiders are divided in to a total of seven different genera. These are distributed across the wetter southern and eastern part of the the continent but nicodamids, especially the species Durodamus yeni, do occur in the arid zone of the continent. All seven Australian genera end in the suffix ‘damus’ taking the root from the first described genus of the family - Nicodamus - which, of course gives the family its name.
Differentiating adult male and female spiders can be quite simple as these images nicely illustrate.The first three images all show the distinctive male palps (more correctly - pedipalps - the elaborate ball-like structures the spiders are so proudly carrying about), important in species recognition, and for the spiders, mating. Females (the last two images) clearly lack these elaborate and highly modified structures. What the females do have (but not visible in these images is the ‘lock’ which the male pedipalpal ‘key’ fits: this is the female epigyne, found on the underside of the female abdomen, its shape matching the structure of the male pedipalp to enable conspecific (same species) mating.
These unidentified specimens were found this year during Deakin University’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences student field-trips exploring the biodiversity of the Grampians and Otways upland regions. If you want to find out more about Australian spiders you should get this lovely little recent book: A Guide to the Spiders of Australia by Framenau, Baehr and Zborowski.
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reading a wiki article on darwin's bark spiders for some inspo for an illustration i want to do and jesus
i knew these fuckers where hardcore but DAMN
Hitching a ride i see
sniper would be the kinda guy to say "aw don't worry mate it's just a little bug" and it's the biggest damn tarantula you've ever seen
She's just a small baby!!!
Found a tiny little spider today, named them Abington
Some wolf spiders I caught in my house recently. My mother saw three and I’ve only managed to catch the two male ones. There’s a huge beautiful female I’ve yet to catch
The first and last pic is the first spider and the middle pics are the second spider
They were both beautiful. I didn’t hurt them I just put them on the porch away from my kitties