Observations by tigerbb

I was SO excited to see these little hatchlings emerge on my kitchen window yesterday! A few months ago, a huge female P. comatus made her way across my living room and kitchen a few times (via ceiling), dropping periodically to check things out. She appeared to be gravid, and my guess was she was looking for a spot to make a nest. I wasn't able to get a photo before she disappeared, never to be seen again. When I saw these babies, I could tell they were phids, but to the naked eye it was impossible to see whether they were P. audax or P. comatus, the two Phidippus species I have found in my yard. The babies came out again today, and this time I had my camera! I believe these markings are early comatus color pattern, and I think that mama made her egg sac inside the window track or something. The best part was when I crossed the kitchen to go get a bit of paper towel so I could give them a drink, and there was another one of the babies on the paper towel roll!!😄

Our shed hasn't been used much in the past year, and it usually has black widow webbing stretching across most of the things at the entrance when you first open it. So when I cleared a bunch of webbing and saw tiny cobweb spiders all over the floor of the shed, I assumed they would be baby widows. To my surprise, they all turned out to be S. triangulosa! I didn't actually see any widows around their webbing.

SO excited to see this gorgeous spider! First of all, she's BEAUTIFUL, but secondly, Enoplognatha is another new visitor to my yard! I've had Theridion spiders galore, but this one is new. I do think I may have misidentified a spiderling of this back in April, assuming it was Theridion.

This handsome gentleman has been living in our house for months now. He likes it in the kitchen window but also spends a lot of time around our plants. It's a bit like having a free-range spider pet. I'll be very sad when he's gone.