#arachnophobesbeware

English Русский One morning, I found Natasha lying on her back. For those of you who don't know, Natasha is my pet tarantula. She is probably a Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea or G. porteri),

English Русский I find these beautiful spiders so regularly, I will simply number them from now on. This particular specimen made her home in some tall weeds in a clearing. A recent downpour has since

English Русский While in the process of demolishing a concrete wall, I uncovered a rather impressive specimen. This is a Dark Fishing Spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus. I have very many of these large spiders

Farther up the tree from the Hyptiotes snare was a much messier but equally distinctive web. If you look closely, you can see that the inside, where the spider is sitting, is a dome. This is characteristic

This is a cross post of my fourth entry into the Fascinating Insects [and other arthropods] community. You could also just watch the video, since all the photos are at the end once the spider is done working.

The following image is the basis for the thumbnail of a video I recorded of this spider building her web: I stumbled across this spider in the middle of building her web, and decided to record the process.

This is a cross post of my first entry in the Fascinating Insects [and other arthropods] community. Below is a picture of one of the spiders that I decided not to include in the main post, but it is quite

This is the easily recognisable Yellow Garden Spider, known by other names as well, and most properly as Argiope aurantia, a name which means "gilded silver-face," owing to the silver colour

Imagine, if you will, that you are sitting on the loo, you look down and to your side, and you see this: I was lucky, this expectant mother sat still long enough for me to get some good pictures. How do

Yeah, sorry about the quality of these pictures. They are actually stills from video clips that I made, and I don't have a decent close-up lens. Anyway, these fishing spiders (Dolomedes tenebrosus) are