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@bugeric.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 2:57 AM

Here's an actual camera photo I took of a labyrinth orbweaver, genus Metepeira, at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson, on October 4. These spiders pair a tangled web, and conical retreat, with the "standard" circular one. #Arachtober #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Small spider, facing head down, with silken retreat or egg sac behind it, with silken strands radiating from it. Spider is mottled brown and gray, with a white double cross or "cardiac" mark on the abdomen. Background is blurred vegetation and building wall.

@wweeta.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 11:51 PM

Spider too small to see, hiding in a crack with her cast-off legs. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/10/thir... #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #Arachtober #NaturePhotography

Photo taken by mistake. A crack in the paint, with an invisible spider (to the naked eye). In the centre, a dark spider; just a blob with legs. The legs are pale greyish brown, with black knees. And hairy. She has just molted; on the right are her empty legs. And a little grey "football"; I have no idea what that is. Background; greyish white, gloss paint.

@lynxspider.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 10:49 PM

#Arachtober #spiders #arachnids #inverts
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@duleyp.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 3:01 PM

A Zebra Jumping #spider (Salticus scenicus) on a fence post in the garden. She was very active, but also fairly tolerant of a human waving a camera and diffuser in her face. #arachtober #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids

A very small spider viewed from head on, and slightly off their right hand side. It's on rough sawn wood of a fence post which is a light brown. The depth of focus is very shallow, and so the foreground and back ground are quite blurred. But the face of the spider, with it's large black two main eyes, and the small eyes adjacent to them, is in focus. It has quite large, shiny black jaws. But it's legs, body and head are covered in short hairs, mainly white, but also some black, particularly on top of it's head, and the occaisional light brown ones. It gives it an attractive appearance as if it's been painted with thin strokes of water colour paint.

@dcfitzgerald.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 1:22 PM

Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavate).East and South Asia, including China. They're an invasive species first detected in Georgia around 2013–2014. They've since spread across the south. #arachnids #nature #biology #wildlife

The Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata) is a large, colorful orb-weaver native to East Asia and now invasive across the southeastern United States.

Appearance & Web: Females measure up to three inches across. They feature vibrant yellow-and-blue striped oval bodies, long dark legs banded with bright orange, and spin immense, golden-tinged webs spanning several feet. Tiny orange males often share these webs.

Ecology: Adaptable to forests and suburban backyards, they feed on flying insects, including invasive stink bugs and lanternflies, while remaining harmless to humans and pets.

@rickmartin.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 11:52 AM

A garden spider catches it's lunch 🌱🕸🕷

#Arachtober #InsectThursday #BugSky #nature #spiders #arachnids

A small European garden spider advancing across its web towards a doomed hoverfly

@bugeric.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 2:06 AM

I spotted this little Bowl and Doily Spider in her web yesterday, in an oak sapling in our backyard. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #Arachtober #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Small spider hanging upside down in a bowl-shaped web among oak leaves. Debris and tiny dead insects are trapped in the web in the right hand side of the photo.

@vannabartlett.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 4:41 PM

Work in progress.
Been drawing Jumping Spiders last few days and I now have enough to make bookmarks!
Salticids are my favourite spiders, they were the 'gateway' species that helped me overcome childhood 'fear' of spiders.
#arachnids #spiders #invertebrates
#Arachtober

A sheet of white paper with five black and white ink drawings of different Jumping Spiders. Top row (left to right): Neon reticulatus, Evarcha falcata and Attulus saltator. Bottom (left to right): Salticus cingulatus and Euophrys frontalis.

An A4 sheet of white paper in portrait format, divided by black horizontal lines into five equal rectangles to make a set of bookmarks. Each rectangle has black and white pen and ink drawings of the five different Jumping Spiders. Each spider is labelled with its scientific name below the image. The first two bookmarks have the same arrangement of spiders but the other three are all slightly different either in the order of the species or in their orientation.

@ajcann.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 4:12 PM

#Arachnids #spiders

@wweeta.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 11:12 AM

Small cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides, with her packed lunch. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/10/some... #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #Arachtober #NaturePhotography

A pale brown spider hangs upside-down, holding on with her long, long legs; hairy legs, with dark "knees". The spider's abdomen is silky, rectangular, the color of café au lait. Her cephalothorax (head end) is a paler brown, translucent. She's eating a small fly or perhaps a tiny moth, tightly wrapped in her silk. She hangs inside a small lampshade; good lighting there attracts moths.

@bugeric.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 1:09 AM

A trashline orbweaver, genus Cyclosa, in the hub of her web, with a string of egg sacs and debris above her. Photo taken today in our yard in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #Arachtober #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Circular spider web with vertical string of egg sacs and debris down the center. Spider is in center (hub) of web, right above the white glob in the lower third of the image.

@chizz13.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 5:14 PM

Another nice record for West Sussex, Walckenaeria nodosa a new species for me and new for the site which is Great. Male and female.

@britishspiders.bsky.social
#arachnids #spiders #walckenaeria

@cgliacouras.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 11:15 AM

This tiny jumping spider is impossible to see on the mortar between the bricks!

#Macro #nature #photography #naturephotography #ECK #Wildlife #arachnids

An extreme close-up of a gray and white jumping spider on a brick. It's facing the upper left corner of the photo.

An extreme close-up of a gray and white jumping spider on the mortar between two bricks. It's facing to the left, and is hard to see.

@bugeric.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 1:31 AM

A funnel weaver spider sits in her retreat, in a flower bed at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson, Arizona, USA, for #Arachtober 12. Photo was taken October 4. #bugsky #bugwatching #spider #arachnids