Spider gallery
Fun fact/fiction: you’re never more than three feet from a spider. It’s true en El Terreno, though the internet says everything from sort of true to not true.
Thankfully spiders don’t bother me (though I don’t like the occasional bites). Mostly they’re fascinating and often beautiful, and I don’t pick them up. Here are some that we see a lot:
Crab spiders are lovely and well-named.
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Paraphidippus genus, in the jumping spider family, not sure of species.
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Here with the female. I haven’t looked up their mating habits - not that interested.
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They do jump.
More jumping spiders - golden and Johnson’s?
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The most fascinating are the lynx spiders, green and striped.
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I think these are all wolf spiders (along with the header photo).
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Don’t all spiders have webs? No. And only the cobweb family makes three-dimensional webs.
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Orbweavers build in the vertical plane, often between objects - these picked tree branches.
This one found a safer spot in an agave leaf.
2 Comments:
October 31, 2018
Those videos are amazing!!!
November 18, 2018
Thank you! Can’t wait to show videos from the new drone! Not of spiders, though, I think it will scare them away.