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January 21, 2021
07:38 PM UTC
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January 21, 2021
07:20 AM EST
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January 21, 2021
02:15 PM UTC
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October 29, 2019
04:56 PM HST
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October 30, 2019
01:07 PM CET
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October 30, 2019
01:16 PM UTC
Description
Found this guy moving all slowly in my garage. Any ideas what species it is?
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September 27, 2019
12:02 PM MDT
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September 27, 2019
07:56 AM HST
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September 24, 2019
02:52 PM CDT
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June 13, 2019
12:38 AM HST
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May 15, 2019
01:16 PM UTC
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June 13, 2019
10:30 AM HKT
Description
Enjoying a light snack, by the looks of it.
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May 31, 2019
06:37 PM AEST
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May 31, 2019
07:09 PM AEST
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May 31, 2019
11:44 AM UTC
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May 31, 2019
08:31 AM CDT
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May 28, 2019
11:47 PM EDT
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May 29, 2019
11:35 AM UTC
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May 29, 2019
01:18 PM UTC
Description
Found in a suburban home in Bellville. Released in garden.
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May 28, 2019
09:45 AM CDT
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May 28, 2019
11:26 AM EDT
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May 28, 2019
03:44 PM UTC
Description
The tiny spider on the leaf!
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May 28, 2019
08:53 AM CDT
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November 7, 2018
09:09 PM +03
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May 15, 2019
09:57 AM UTC
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May 15, 2019
01:45 PM UTC
Description
Very small argiope, possibly immature?
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May 15, 2019
10:28 PM HKT
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May 13, 2019
10:22 AM CEST
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May 10, 2019
02:48 AM HST
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May 10, 2019
01:55 PM AEST
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December 19, 2018
10:47 PM CST
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May 2, 2019
01:40 PM SAST
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April 26, 2019
08:56 AM CDT
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April 24, 2019
09:49 PM UTC
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April 25, 2019
11:36 AM BST
Description
Female Misumena vatia preying on a hoverfly (Eristalis sp.) and a honey bee. A small kleptoparasitic milichiid fly can be seen wandering around the bee.
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April 25, 2019
09:22 AM EDT
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April 25, 2019
02:52 PM BST
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April 25, 2019
07:45 PM IST
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April 17, 2019
11:39 AM UTC
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April 2, 2019
01:04 PM SAST
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April 2, 2019
10:46 AM -05
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April 2, 2019
10:48 AM -05
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April 2, 2019
10:47 AM -05
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March 25, 2019
01:26 PM HKT
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March 25, 2019
06:55 PM CST
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March 25, 2019
11:22 PM EDT
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March 26, 2019
12:01 AM EDT
Description
Male. Glendening Nature Preserve, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA.
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March 26, 2019
02:12 PM CET
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March 26, 2019
05:20 PM +03
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March 26, 2019
07:20 AM HST
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February 8, 2019
07:24 PM UTC
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February 8, 2019
06:06 PM UTC
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January 27, 2019
05:56 PM HST
Description
Palco: Heliconia rostrata
Stage: Heliconia rostrata
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January 28, 2019
06:58 PM CET
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January 21, 2019
05:39 PM EST
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January 22, 2019
10:28 AM CST
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January 22, 2019
08:50 AM PST
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January 15, 2019
11:59 PM AEDT
Description
Sighting and photos (c) shineybeetleman.
Field Notes - Group of about 6 with overlapping webs.
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January 15, 2019
02:20 PM UTC
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January 15, 2019
03:36 PM UTC
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January 15, 2019
06:15 PM GMT
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January 15, 2019
08:11 PM SAST
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January 10, 2019
02:29 PM UTC
Description
Dark brown spider with light brown stripe over body and two dark dots within the stripe on the abdomen.
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January 9, 2019
07:44 PM IST
Description
Long-jawed Orb Weaver - Tetragnatha sp. [Tetragnathidae family], Goa, India, July 2018. Habitat- Moist deciduous. Several spiderlings were also seen along.
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January 9, 2019
07:44 PM IST
Description
Ant-mimicking Jumping Spider (Myrmaplata/ Myrmarachne sp.) [Salticidae family], Goa, India.
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December 25, 2018
07:58 PM UTC
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December 25, 2018
11:20 PM MSK
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December 25, 2018
06:20 PM CST
Description
He really liked my little camera
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December 19, 2018
05:29 PM PST
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December 20, 2018
05:07 PM AEDT
Description
Sighting and photos (c) entropyandroar.
Field Notes - being eaten by a daddy longlegs :(
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December 20, 2018
05:16 PM AEDT
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December 18, 2018
10:48 PM EST
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December 19, 2018
06:09 PM +10
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December 19, 2018
04:20 PM SAST
Description
Don't disturb a rain spider on her nest, @magrietb!
The spiders seem to like nesting in this species of conebush, saw a number of nests in them.
Inside the nest were lots of lovely little spiderlings.
This is slowed right down (about 8x) this took less than half a second on film.
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December 17, 2018
05:39 PM CST
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December 18, 2018
12:36 AM CST
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December 18, 2018
01:54 PM UTC
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December 17, 2018
06:07 PM SAST
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December 14, 2018
12:48 AM CST
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December 14, 2018
02:52 AM PST
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December 14, 2018
01:53 PM UTC
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December 12, 2018
04:56 AM HST
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December 12, 2018
03:49 AM HST
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December 12, 2018
04:46 AM HST
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December 13, 2018
05:14 AM UTC
Description
Near Symphony Stage Lake, SBG. Spider (including legs) approximately size of open palm.
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December 12, 2018
06:37 PM SST
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December 12, 2018
06:37 PM SST
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December 11, 2018
07:14 AM PST
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December 11, 2018
08:59 AM CST
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December 10, 2018
02:47 PM SAST
Description
Thinking the web a shelter or nest.
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December 7, 2018
05:19 PM CST
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December 7, 2018
05:28 PM CST
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December 7, 2018
08:20 PM EST
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December 3, 2018
07:51 PM HST
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December 3, 2018
03:50 PM SAST
Description
Roman Passion
Length approx. 25mm
Started filming a few seconds in, so whole encounter took approx 90seconds. Full video here: https://youtu.be/UOZ53L8qk0A
I saw the male circling the female, then suddenly dart in behind her. He held her in his jaws, her abdomen bend up and over her head. They continued back and forth for 90seconds, at times it became frenetic and he whacked her up and down on the sand a number of times (as in GIF), which made me think perhaps they weren't mating but that one solifuge was killing the other. But in the end they separated unharmed.
From Wikipedia:
" Life cycle
..Reproduction can involve direct or indirect sperm transfer; when indirect, the male emits a spermatophore on the ground and then inserts it with his chelicerae in the female's genital pore. To do this, he flings the female on her back.
The female then digs a burrow, into which she lays 50 to 200 eggs – some species then guard them until they hatch. Because the female does not feed during this time, she will try to fatten herself beforehand, and a species of 5 cm has been observed to eat more than 100 flies during that time in the laboratory. Solifugae undergo a number of stages including, egg, postembryo, 9–10 nymphal instars, and adults."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#Life_cycle
Links to more mating vids here: https://www.inaturalist.org/comments/2330202
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October 11, 2018
07:22 PM HKT
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November 30, 2018
09:40 AM AEDT
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November 29, 2018
11:39 PM UTC
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November 29, 2018
09:37 PM MST
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November 30, 2018
10:45 AM EST