there is absolutely the tiniest little orb weaver spider in the most ibblest of webs in my old chlamadis vine. she is so tiny i can't get a picture of her which means of course that she is also a ghost
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The other day I was doing garden things and I found my first Steatoda nobilis aka Noble False Widow spider. A species that UK newspapers periodically lose their minds about when they don't have enough scary trans people or immigrant stories because they are 'related to' black widows. They are not dangerous.
This one was missing 2 front right legs and had a hole clear through her carapace (front left quarter) which I found interesting, I would have thought a wound like that would have made her bleed out but I guess not.
The next day I was doing garden things again and thought I'd see if she was still there, and I did find her, but she had apparently become dinner overnight
RIP lady. The culprit was identified as a Drassodes sp. aka Stone Spider, who regularly prey on other spiders. This fucker was speedy and I did a lot of undignified flailing as it kept running at me while I was trying to photograph it. Apparently I still have like 1% of my old arachnophobic response when it comes to true spiders.
I think this has come up before, but I can't recall and I'll be damned if I'm going down that rabbit hole, but what's a true spider?
hobbyist term to denote "not tarantula"
Well. True spiders are spiders with relatively small pinchy fangs that cross when biting. As opposed to Mygalomorphae (tarantulas, mouse spiders, australian funnel-spiders etc. Basically primitive spiders with really big chompers that puncture downwards) or Liphistiidae (Segmented spiders. A group of weirdo asian spiders that are the last descendants of a mostly extinct family. They have segmented plates on their abdomen and have downwards puncturing fangs, but not as big as mygalomorphs).
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Can't see the lower half, maybe they're a drider monkey.
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Did some rehousings today so have some hairy spiders.
Makulu, Theraphosa stirmi L03 female
Portia, Psalmopoeus irminia L07 male. Absolutely did not want to cooperate with photos
2 Monocentropus balfouri. I think L03/04 but it's hard to know. Rehoused my communal and all 10 are still alive which is great news; I'd only seen a max of 4 at once recently and some were really fat so I was a bit worried.
Will your communal housing produce slings in the future? Or is that not a thing because they're all from the same brood?
I don't know about Balfouri specifically, but it's possible the males will mature and die out before the female is even ready to breed, with them being about the same age. But that's more a problem for dwarf species.
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What I will probably do is as males mature I'll remove them and send them off for breeding. Then once I have mature females, I dunno, maybe I'll get hold of a male to stick in there if I want to suddenly have hundreds of grandchildren.
No. It's an easy mistake to make as they're both fuzzy, but cougars have half the number of legs than an average tarantula. Other than that though, they're practically the same animal.
Might be more accurate to say cougar females are half tarantulas, until two fuse into a single tarantula with the correct amount of legs.
so what I'm hearing is I should start working on the script for the next Syfy original, Cougantula
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Bad phone pic taken through plastic, but my L. subcanens just molted and got her full adult appearance. She's so fuzzy.
Her molt was 8.2cm (about 3.3"?) legspan so I reckon she's pushing 10cm (4") now because she always puts on a chunk of growth with each molt. About half grown I reckon. Was able to confirm her sex with this molt and am delighted she's a girl because I'd suspected she was male previously, and I've never seen this species for sale before or since getting her so I really wanted a female. She's definitely the most tarantula-ass looking tarantula in my collection. I loves her.
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This elegant beast showed up in my parents' back yard after a week of flooding in the surrounding area. Some kind of pond slider, do you think? They can't get a good picture of the head because it is extremely shy and goes inside if anyone gets within twenty feet of it.
Red-eared slider I think? The shell certainly looks spot on.
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Good call, that definitely looks like a match.
Show us your ears, you weird little tank monster
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Offer it some pizza
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New skin, who dis
Got a better pic of my P. irminia as well. Shame about having to take it through plastic but oh well.
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I have a spider! It was hanging out on my back porch for a while, but I've spotted it in various parts of the kitchen every day for a week. Seems like a pretty chill little critter, hopefully wants to chow down on some flies.
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Monitor lizards stand on their back legs more often than people think. Even the really big ones like Komodos.
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This one was missing 2 front right legs and had a hole clear through her carapace (front left quarter) which I found interesting, I would have thought a wound like that would have made her bleed out but I guess not.
The next day I was doing garden things again and thought I'd see if she was still there, and I did find her, but she had apparently become dinner overnight
RIP lady. The culprit was identified as a Drassodes sp. aka Stone Spider, who regularly prey on other spiders. This fucker was speedy and I did a lot of undignified flailing as it kept running at me while I was trying to photograph it. Apparently I still have like 1% of my old arachnophobic response when it comes to true spiders.
hobbyist term to denote "not tarantula"
Well. True spiders are spiders with relatively small pinchy fangs that cross when biting. As opposed to Mygalomorphae (tarantulas, mouse spiders, australian funnel-spiders etc. Basically primitive spiders with really big chompers that puncture downwards) or Liphistiidae (Segmented spiders. A group of weirdo asian spiders that are the last descendants of a mostly extinct family. They have segmented plates on their abdomen and have downwards puncturing fangs, but not as big as mygalomorphs).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Thanks, Google. AI knocking it out of the park already, I see.
Can't see the lower half, maybe they're a drider monkey.
Makulu, Theraphosa stirmi L03 female
Portia, Psalmopoeus irminia L07 male. Absolutely did not want to cooperate with photos
2 Monocentropus balfouri. I think L03/04 but it's hard to know. Rehoused my communal and all 10 are still alive which is great news; I'd only seen a max of 4 at once recently and some were really fat so I was a bit worried.
Nkombi, Ceratogyrus darlingi L03 unsexed.
I don't know about Balfouri specifically, but it's possible the males will mature and die out before the female is even ready to breed, with them being about the same age. But that's more a problem for dwarf species.
I don't think so, for the reason Shifty said. The males will mature before the females.
I assume all cougar females are tarantulas?
No. It's an easy mistake to make as they're both fuzzy, but cougars have half the number of legs than an average tarantula. Other than that though, they're practically the same animal.
Might be more accurate to say cougar females are half tarantulas, until two fuse into a single tarantula with the correct amount of legs.
Her molt was 8.2cm (about 3.3"?) legspan so I reckon she's pushing 10cm (4") now because she always puts on a chunk of growth with each molt. About half grown I reckon. Was able to confirm her sex with this molt and am delighted she's a girl because I'd suspected she was male previously, and I've never seen this species for sale before or since getting her so I really wanted a female. She's definitely the most tarantula-ass looking tarantula in my collection. I loves her.
This elegant beast showed up in my parents' back yard after a week of flooding in the surrounding area. Some kind of pond slider, do you think? They can't get a good picture of the head because it is extremely shy and goes inside if anyone gets within twenty feet of it.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Show us your ears, you weird little tank monster
Got a better pic of my P. irminia as well. Shame about having to take it through plastic but oh well.
I have a spider! It was hanging out on my back porch for a while, but I've spotted it in various parts of the kitchen every day for a week. Seems like a pretty chill little critter, hopefully wants to chow down on some flies.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
That seems... pretty nightmarish, actually!
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