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Spidermax

@spidermax3000.bsky.social

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Amateur wildlife/animal photographer, zoology nerd, bug lover, tarantula keeper, herper, zoo lurker, aquarium hobbyist, frog guy, ecology enthusiast, beginner birder. He/him based in Cincinnati, Ohio I shoot with a canon rebel T2i

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duleyp.bsky.social @duleyp.bsky.social · 21h

A pseudoscorpion for #arachtober. A Compost Chernes [pselaphochernes scorpioides] from the garden compost heap.
#wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife #macro

A plan view of a eight legged invertebrate that has two long arms reaching out from its head with crab like claws on the end. The body looks like one large reddy brown oval, with the main portion bisected by a lighter line, with each side split into 10 regular sections. The body, arms, and legs, are covered in tiny short hairs, with occaisional longer ones which act as sensory organs.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #TetragnathaTuesday!

This is possibly the Silver Long-jawed Orbweaver, Tetragnatha laboriosa. #LegsForDays.

#MacroPhotography
#Nature
#Photography
#Arachtober
#Spiders

A photo of a very long silvery tan spider from above. The spider's two front pair of legs are long and slender and marked with black bands which are more closely spaced closer to the body. The front most pair is the longest and both are covered in many fine spine-like hairs. The spider's forebody is tanish yellow with a dark stripe along the center rear, its two rows of small shiny black eyes are clustered around the front. The abdomen is a bit thicker but also long, almost sausage shaped, and is silvery tan/creamy with reticulated black markings.,

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 2d

Prowling spider, Syspira sp., one of my favorite desert species. This one was barely 1/2 inch including leg span. Shot at 4.5X & a slight crop; nine shots stacked together to get the whole face in focus. I love how well camouflaged it is on the pale sand, like a little spider ghost. #Arachtober 🌿🐙👻🕷️

An extreme closeup photo, at ground level, looking into the face of a cream-colored spider on similarly-colored sand. The spider has sparse dark hairs and several longer spiny hairs, and dark eyes. All eight eyes are visible. Most of the legs are out of frame. There's a bit of crinkly silk in the lower left.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 1d

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

Large fuzzy black and white jumping spider with bright green chelicerae, on grumpy salticid posture (legs tight around him like cat loaf), on the tip of a stick peering at you

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 21h

#arachtober
Yellow garden #spider - Argiope aurantia
(Shot in Cincinnati 9-11-25) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #urbanwildlife #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #orbweaver #spidersky #ento

A yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia) shot straight on with their white head at the bottom of frame and their black abdomen with yellow and white markings at the top. Their front pair of legs are all black. The rear most pair is mostly yellow until it turns black and their second pair from the front are the same. Their second from the back pair are mostly black but yellow closer to their body. We can’t really see their web or the iconic zig-zag due to the white background they’ve chosen for their home.

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Cotinis @cotinis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Arachtober the 8th! Something different for today, a public domain image from McCook's American spiders and their spinning work (1889). Original at:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42190084
The illustrator is Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall (1861 - 1956).
I cleaned up the image in GIMP.

Plate 12 from American Spiders and their Spinning Work (1889).

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 1d

Pachygnatha degeeri

#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem #Arachtober

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 2d

Shamrock Orb Weaver
#31DaysOfHalloween #spiders
#arachtober #nature

A lovely spider with a white abdomen and stripey legs crawls sideways in front of an orange background.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 1d

#arachtober
Thin-legged wolf #spider - Pardosa sp.
(Shot near Cincinnati 9-18-25) 🐺🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #wolfspider #spidersky #ento

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 3d

Day 6 of #Arachtober this is a Flower Crab Spider, Misumena vatia. Fearsome little spiders who lie in wait in flowes and are capable of taking prey much larger then themselves as can be seen here. All these images are from my own photo library.

A small white spider sitting on the pink petal of a flower. It is holding a black and yellow hoverfly vertically. The fly is at least twice the size if the spider.

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Milvus @moremilvus.bsky.social · 2d

Das ist eines meiner Lieblingsspinnenbilder aus Madagaskar.🥰

#Arachtober

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jon5cents @jon5cents.bsky.social · 3d

🕷️ A different #MacroMonday #spider today. I took this a while back and didn't do anything with it. The flash did funny things with the web color. But I finally decided I liked it. Kind of looks...electric? #photography #spiders #macro

An orb weaver is in the middle of a mess of webbing. The spider is yellow and reddish-brown. The web has many colors from the light from the flash.

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Photos by Vertego (David Green) @photosbyvertego.bsky.social · 3d

Hello to all the little things. It's #MacroMonday.

false oil beetle, swollen-thighed beetle, thick-legged flower beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 2d

#arachtober #macromonday
Jumping #spider - Platycryptus undatus
(Shot near Cincinnati 9-12-25) 🕷️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #jumpingspider #spidersky

A little jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus) crawling through a jungle of arm hair on my kind and gentle friend. The shot is mostly top down with the spider facing the right of frame. We see most of their dull dorsal patterns on the right side of their body. The only eye we get to really see is the one on their right at the top of their carapace

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 4d

Habronattus alachua lass with the Head Tilt ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Light grey fuzzy jumping spider with reddish-brown stripes down her face across her big eyes, on a blade of dry grass tilting her head to peer at you

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 4d

Day 5 #Arachtober possibly the last thing the prey of a crab spider will see. Often the eye pattern can get to to the family of spiders and the eye pattern for Thomasidae is obvious in this image of a Xysticus sp which is about the size of my little fingernail.

A close-up image of a reddish brown spider looking straight at the camera. It is on the ground on a few blades of grass. It has the two forward pairs of legs spread wide giving it a crab like appearance, hence the name. The scale of the blades of grass shows that this is a small spider.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 3d

I think this might be my favorite fishing spider

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 3d

For today's #arachtober post I present the magnificent Six-spotted Fishing Spider, Dolomedes triton.

#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Spiders
#Invertebrates

A photo of a black and white spider from the front and side as it rested on the surface of algae covered water. The spider's legs are black and covered in spine-like hairs. The upper part of the spider's cephalothorax, the front part of its body, is black, it;s eyes, clustered forward are black and glossy, there is a white stripe running horizontally below them. The stripe continues along the side of the spider's abdomen, above 2 of the 6 spots can be seen along with a tan stripe.

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🕷️Tristan (he/him)🏳️‍⚧️ @spidersathome.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #arachtober the fifth from the bold jumping spider I found outside the bank

A dark jumping spider with white markings and metallic green sparkles on their legs and chelicerae. They are on a bright yellow flower and facing the viewer.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 3d

Went to the desert this morning because sometimes you need to touch sand. I found this pretty little spider, I think a desert recluse (Loxosceles deserta). I really like the pinstriping and subtle olive green in her legs and palps. Like all recluses, she has 6 eyes in 3 pairs. 🌿🐙 #Arachtober

A macro photo at ground level looking into the face of a spider atop a sandy-textured rock. The spider is pale orange with long orange-yellow legs that eventually transition to olive-green. She is a desert recluse spider, which you can tell because all recluse spiders have six eyes in three pairs. Only the legs on one side are visible, in the right part of the frame; the others are mostly out of frame and her body is center left.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Sunday
#arachtober continues
Golden silk #orbweaver - Trichonephila clavipes
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 9-4-25) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #spider #zoo #cincyzoopic

A golden silk orb-weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) on her web with her head down while we get a dorsal view of her golden coloration throughout her legs and abdomen.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 4d

Here is your Saturday Spider. It's a twig spider (maybe Ariamnes sp.?) in Madagascar, at night in the forest; it has captured another spider, which is the soccer-ball thing near its fangs. About 1 inch long. (I've shared this elsewhere before, but I think not here. Sorry, if so.) #Arachtober 🐙🌿

A photo of a spider called a twig spider, standing atop a straight, thin, dry twig, parallel to it, stretching in a level line left to right. The background is pure black. The spider has very long legs and an extremely elongated, twig-like abdomen. It has captured a smaller spider and has it wrapped up in a silk ball; two straight strands of silk are visible, one starting at the spinnerets and anchored to the twig, the other attached to the prey and leading left, out of frame.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 5d

Phidippus cardinalis boys appear to be velvet ant mimics. It works for them. ❤️
#Arachtober

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Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social · 5d

@britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social
Me: I don't have a favourite UK spider

Also me: 😍

#Arachtober

Ero tuberculata, a rather scarce Pirate Spider is found mainly on mature heathland on tall heather and gorse, but sometimes also in houses. It searches out the webs of other spiders in order to feed on the occupants

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Sparty® @young-spartacus.bsky.social · 5d

'Net-Fly & Chill'

Web sways on soft breeze,
Spider dines, a quiet feast,
Green leaves gleam below

Sparty

#EastCoastKin #Photography #ColorADay #GreenSat #Nature #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #Macro #Arachtober #BugSky #Art #Haiku
#PhotographersofBluesky #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueskyArt #31DaysofHalloween

The detailed close-up photograph captures a European garden spider, likely an Araneus diadematus, meticulously positioned in the centre of the intricate hub of its orb web. The spider, with its distinctively patterned abdomen showcasing shades of brown, beige, and darker markings, faces slightly downwards, its multiple eyes barely visible amidst the texture of its cephalothorax. One of its prey, a small, dark insect, is held firmly within its chelicerae, indicating a recent capture or meal. The delicate, shimmering silk strands of the web radiate outwards, forming a perfect spiral, each thread catching the ambient light and revealing its fine structure against the blurred background.
The setting is a verdant natural environment dominated by lush green foliage that provides a soft, out-of-focus backdrop. Several clusters of small, pale yellow flower buds, possibly from a plant like Hypericum androsaemum, emerge from the greenery, adding splashes of contrasting colour and texture to the scene. The depth of field is shallow, isolating the spider and its web as the sharpest elements in the frame, while the surrounding leaves and blossoms dissolve into a pleasing bokeh. The lighting suggests a natural, soft illumination from filtered sunlight, creating subtle highlights on the spider's body and the web silk without harsh shadows. The overall mood is one of quiet nature, emphasising the delicate balance of predator and prey within a vibrant ecosystem. The composition is balanced, drawing the viewer's eye directly to the central arachnid and its meal.

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