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Joro Spider (Trichonephila clavata)Observer
kim_flemingDescription
Joro as prey to a Mimetus sp. spider
I've been watching this Joro every day recently because she was the last one left on the property this year (that I knew of). To my surprise this is how I found her this morning. When the temperature drops to around or below freezing, I've found the Joro females hanging limp in their webs, and nearly unresponsive but not totally, and as the temp rises they limber and liven back up, coming back to normal. I wonder if the 31F temp this morning likely rendered her a lot more vulnerable to being preyed upon. She was definitely not responsive at all to my pokes before I left this pair this morning and it had already warmed up to 45F.
The last photo is one I had taken the day before of the same female Joro, 1 Dec 22.
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Typical Jumping Spiders (Subfamily Salticinae)Observer
aperturesciencebydanDescription
Appears to be an adult male judging by palps, ~3mm long. Oak leaf litter.
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Turtleshell Scale (Ctenochiton chelyon)Observer
hamishmcwDescription
Five green and yellow tortoise-shell-like structures found on a fallen leaf (probably hangehange, Geniostoma rupestre) on a forest track. Nine days later numerous tiny yellow egg-shaped objects appeared scattered over the surface. Eggs?
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Mealybugs (Family Pseudococcidae)Observer
jfmantisDescription
In Lasius nearcticus nest. Is each color a different species?
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Peppercorn Scale (Epelidochiton piperis)Observer
greyDescription
Two female scales on the underside of a Kawakawa leaf. Diameter of scales 2 mm.
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samuelpurdiewilldifeDescription
Remarkable creature with MANY hitchhikers on its abdomen! I've never seen such extensive mite coverage before!
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Gahnia Glassy Scale (Kalasiris martini)Observer
stephen_thorpeDescription
Gittos Domain, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. On Gahnia setifolia.
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Genus ForsteropsalisObserver
kdsouzaDescription
One male was sitting atop the other (dead) and appeared to be eating the dead male. We removed the top male from the bottom to confirm the bottom harvestman was a dead male (4th pic).
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Canopy Jumping Spider (Phidippus otiosus)Observer
ariana2009Description
Unsure if it is a bold or regal jumping spider. I know it is eating a fir tussock moth.
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
cgritzDescription
Caught one of the Queens in the Gregg's blue mistflower
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
corvid81Description
Eating a Salt Marsh Moth caterpillar! It dragged the caterpillar around with surprising strength
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
marykeimDescription
Orlando Wetlands Park, Orange County, FL, March 2014.
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
amy167Description
The spider found a good place to catch honeybees.
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
joebartokDescription
Very large (at least 20 mm long) and gravid, perching on a tree trunk and consuming a Forest Tent Caterpillar. – https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19488947
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
jwnDescription
Predating Plains Cubtail
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
megan61Description
It's a double. I think jumping spider and assassin bug?
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
jwnDescription
I think this is an immature bold jumping spider with long-jawed orb weaver prey, but that's just what a nearby cricket frog told me, and you know how they are.
@wildcarrot
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
hydaticusDescription
Eating Panorpa nuptialis
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
buffaceDescription
I was photographing insects and being attacked by beastly mosquitos. One mosquito, filled up with my blood, landed on a nearby plant and was immediately ambushed by a jumping spider.
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
pessimisticsnakeDescription
Brutal. Bold Jumping Spider eating/killing a Harvestman.
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flossiepipDescription
Found this tiny male walking all over a square ended crab spider.
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Canopy Jumping Spider (Phidippus otiosus)Observer
teammaiseyDescription
Spider eating caterpillar
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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)Observer
brennafarrellDescription
With spider: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35251373. This wasp and another one chased me away from the message board.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
epitreeDescription
8 mm On Coastal boulder
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
little_metal_weirdoDescription
Very aggressively eyeing me, ready to fight for his meal.
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Thread-waisted Sand Wasps (Genus Ammophila)Observer
mhedinDescription
sandy decomposed granite wash, ~ 75 F. many open burrows lining wash edge, evenly spaced, many wasps tending. female wasp with caterpillar prey wandering in ~ 8 yard circle, then found burrow. stashed prey, then seemed to clean burrow. eventually brought caterpillar into burrow, head first. proceeded to fill burrow with sand and small pebbles, then capped with larger pebble, then covered neatly with sand, impossible to detect burrow. many small parasitic flies in vicinity of burrow as wasp brought caterpillar into burrow
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Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)Observer
leachDescription
Jumping spider with harvestman prey.
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Organ-pipe Mud-dauber Wasp (Trypoxylon politum)Observer
milopyneDescription
in old cabin
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Regal Jumping Spider (Phidippus regius)Observer
seaheart88Description
with prey of a black swallowtail
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Apache Jumping Spider (Phidippus apacheanus)Observer
jamesdvonlohDescription
Apache? jumper ingesting a corn earworm moth with assist from fire ant. Using climbing milkweed foliage for cover.
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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)Observer
darlingbeetleDescription
caught a bold jumper!!
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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)Observer
damart95Description
Mud-dauber attacking spider. Laying eggs?
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Apache Jumping Spider (Phidippus apacheanus)Observer
xochitl15Description
May be a regal jumping spider, but could someone confirm?
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Organ-pipe Mud-dauber Wasp (Trypoxylon politum)Observer
taryneDescription
Watched several of these wasps flying around this hawthorn infested with aphids. Hard to tell exactly what was going on but appeared to me from the pictures that the wasps were grabbing parts or whole aphids from the limbs. Did not look like they were there just for honeydew but maybe?
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Salticus peckhamaeObserver
jeffheardDescription
I have no idea what this is. There's a quarter and $2(Canadian) for scale.. pesos would be much more useful, but I don't have any, sorry
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Neopilionid Harvestmen (Family Neopilionidae)Observer
tony_willsDescription
A couple of harvestmen on a tree trunk, both afflicted with mites, and legs missing ... it's a hard life :-(
(AA battery for scale)
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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)Observer
josh_vandermeulen
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Ocala Paradise Spider (Habronattus ocala)Observer
mhedinDescription
small openings in stunted scrub oak, sandy soils
