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i am losing my mind over discovering that there's a species of jumping spider (Pellenes nigrociliatus) that builds nests in empty snail shells and makes little silk webbing curtains to close off the entrance

look at her!! she is so cute!!! i want to cry!!!!

One single spider has been descending from a very long thread all the way from the moon and will very soon, we hope, carefully touch down on earth.

How it feels lately

such a pretty cellar spider mama! her eggs look like fish eggs. looks like she's not a first time mama either, look at all the itty bitty shed exoskeletons in the web around her!

Long-bodied Cellar Spider (Pholcus phalangioides) ©Kayla P.

Cellar spiders consumed by engyodontium aranearum

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

A little mini spider!

This is my first time sizing down one of my patterns instead of sizing it up and I think it turned out so darn cute! A little mini version of Gregory the Spider!

A recent study on Phidippus regius suggests they may be able to recognize individual spiders by sight, reacting differently to familiar and unfamiliar individuals. That alone should make people stop underestimating them.

They are also built for precision. Studies suggest they adjust jumps to the situation/enviroment, and that the power comes mainly from muscle rather than some simple spring-loaded catapult system or "hydraulic pressure."

Jumping spiders also do not use all of their eyes in the same way. Different eye pairs handle different visual jobs. Their eyesight is so sharp that researchers have suggested jumping spiders should be able to see the moon!

Their metallic chelicerae can shift between green, blue, and violet because of microscopic structures that bend light. Even cooler is that some jumping spider species show an REM sleep-like state!

The more you learn about these amazing spiders, the more fascinating they become.

#spider #jumpingspider #phiddipusregius #nature #animals

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[PHOTOS TAKEN: APRIL 2ND, 2026 | Image IDs: Three photos of a brown american nursery web spider in a small corner of a lightly rusted metal post with wire around it /End IDs.]

Pisaurina mira, an american nursery web spider!

hey at someone is eating the brown marmorated stinkbugs….

orb weaver spider