Arachtober
@arachtober.bsky.social
Celebrate October by posting arachnids and spiders with the tag #Arachtober. I am jciv, a macro photographer living in South Texas, USA, who loves spiders. At the moment, I am posting mainly stereographic 3D macro photos. 🇺🇸📸🕷️ https://arachtober.com
City Nature Challenge this year, I noticed this little Bark Lynx Spider dangling from my hat. Recently on one of our #Arachtober #spider hunts, I told my girlfriend that 4 eyes are better than 2. She corrected me: we both wear glasses, so we have 8 eyes. Just like a spider! #macrophotography
Spitting Spider - #Arachtober Spitting Spiders (Genus Scytodes) are a six eyed genus of spider gets their name from catching prey by spitting a sticky venomous fluid that immobilizes the victim. #spider #macrophotography #macro
Stabilimentum - #Arachtober There are many theories on why a #spider makes it, but spiders don't talk so we don't know for sure. Scientists have tested many reasons. Studies have shown it makes the web more visible to prevent large animals from running into the web. It may serve multiple purposes.
Way Too Close!! - #Arachtober 18 I ran face first into this Tropical Orbweaver spider right outside my front door. It was a real challenge to photograph because I can't see without glasses. #spider #macrophotograph
Solifuges are arachnids with many names: Camel Spiders, Wind Scorpions, and Sun Spiders. They look like a cross between a spider and a scorpion, but they are neither. They are in their own order, Solifugae. They do not have venom. #Arachtober #arachnid #macrophotography
This male Bronze Jumper, Eris militaris, was prowling around our front porch light a couple nights ago here in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #Arachtober #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids
Arrowhead orbweaver, Verrucosa arenata, from late August for #arachtober 17. #bugsky #inverts #macrophotography
What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And here are the drawings of the third week of #Spideroctober, with a quick sheet for each species after the 2 main pages! Next update for the drawing challenge next sunday! #spider #sciart
Leptoctenus byrrhus - #Arachtober 15 I was looking for crevice spiders in an old rotting tree and instead found this pretty Wandering Spider (Family Ctenidae). #spider #macrophotography #arachnid
I was excited to capture these two Stretched Thieves (Rhomphaea) #mating. I have been seeing a bunch of these tiny spiders this month. They are cobweb spiders (Theridiidae), but unlike most of the family, they specialize in hunting other #spiders! #Arachtober #spider #macrophotography
#Arachtober 13th Eriophora edax eating an Anacua Tortoise Beetle (Coptocycla texana). #spider #macrophotography #arachnid
Day 12 - L for the magnificent Latrodectus - black widows, perhaps the most iconic of all spiders. This large female L. erythromelas (taxonomy still debated) was foud under a stone in Hyderabad, India. #arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social
Day 13 - M for Micrommata, the green huntsman spiders. The only British species of huntsman, M. virescens - is truly a sight to behold with its lime green body, lightning speed and impressive size. #arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social
One of the most incredible photos I have ever been sent, courtesy of Chloë James of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Seagrass Restoration Team. Yep, that's Philodromus margaritatus...under seawater using...an air bubble to breathe and move about. I am utterly speechless!! @britishspiders.bsky.social
What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Arachtober ! And here are the drawings of the second week of #Spideroctober, with a quick sheet for each species after the 2 main pages! Next update for the drawing challenge next sunday! #spider #sciart
A wolf spider, Tigrosa grandis, for #Arachtober 11, seen last Thursday in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spider #arachnid
A few recent salticid finds for #Arachtober 🎃🕷️ 1 Classic orange face of a Platycryptus undatus male found haunting a picnic table 2 Effective ant-mimic: Synemosyna formica 3 Pale, gold-topped Hentzia mitrata on oak 4 Juvenile Phidippus audax hunting pollinators on frostweed
#Arachtober Day 10 Mr. Misumena vatia blending in with the blooms on a Pearly Everlasting flower. #inverts #becurious
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh 😍 baby trapdoor spiders! It's been so long since I've seen any. Just little derpy children experiencing the wide world for the first time and dispersing. Bug and I were so happy #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober
This Starbellied Orbweaver appears to have captured a mating pair of Toxomerus marginatus. Photographed during a Missouri Prairie Foundation bioblitz at Lordi Marker Prairie in Pettis County, Missouri. #arachtober #spider
#Arachtober 10th is also #JumpingSpiderDay. I found this Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) while doing the #CityNatureChallenge with my girlfriend. She had to help me get prickly pear spines out of my pants shortly after this shot. #spider #macro #macrophotography #arachnid
I've been severely lacking in my #arachtober duties, so I thought I'd finish what I left halfway last year - an A to Z of arachnid genera. @arachtober.bsky.social A for the inimitable Argyroneta (Argyronetidae), the only spider known to live an entirely aquatic lifestyle.
