It has finally gotten warm enough to set my pet Phiddipus audax free. I first noticed her in the fall of last year sitting on my balcony window looking a bit cold. So I brought her in and noticed she wasn't

Here are a few odds and ends from the garden. This first gal is Argiope aurantia aka the yellow garden spider. I usually see one or two in the fall around here. They have an interesting zig zag in the

Here are a few spiders I've spotted on my commute into Chicago for this #spiderday In Chicago there are quite a few bridges running across the Chicago River. This is a perfect spot for orb weavers to setup

Here are some Arizona finds for this #spiderday. Here is a common find in everyone's house in Arizona. A giant desert hairy scorpion with a Latin name of Hadrurus arizonensis. Most of them are quite small

Here are some tarantulas from various pet stores for this #spiderday Check out this expensive purple bloom bird eater. Her Latin name is Pamphobeteus platyomma this one's coloring makes her super expensive

Here is my pet cobalt blue tarantula for this #spiderday Look at this beautiful blue gal. Her Latin name is Cyriopagopus lividus a tarantula species from Myanmar that lives in the jungle. I keep her enclosure

Here are a couple Arizona finds for this #spiderday I know this guy is technically not an arachnid but it is one of the largest centipedes I have ever seen. It was at least a foot long. This guy is so

Here is a crab spider for this #spiderday Here is a flower crab spider from the genus Mecaphesa. They wait inside flowers hoping for bees or flies to come by, then suddenly they pounce on them. I tried

This #spiderday features my pet Carl the vinegaroon. Carl's Latin name is Mastigoproctus giganteus and he is in the order of arachnids called Thelyphonida. This was Carl on the first day I got him from

Looks like its another #spiderday here I introduce you to my pet Chilean Rose Tarantula. She is pretty large almost as big as your hand. We take her out on walks sometimes. They are very gentile spiders

It's another #spiderday Here is a grass spider that wandered into my condo. Grass spiders (Agelenopsis) typically live on hedges and trees around here. They weave funnels on the top with a surface net

Looks like it's another #spiderday Currently I am keeping a daring jumping spider as a pet but this photoshoot is from a spider I found a couple years ago and kept as a pet. These daring/bold jumping spiders

Here is my first post in the arachnids community on a #spiderday Here is a nice plump wolf spider that got into my condo from my balcony. Fortunately it was so fat that it couldn't run that fast so I was