Resting on my knuckles. These adorable little orb weavers are always a great find.
I took this adorable family picture when we were out gardening and I found this wolf spiders cute little clay nest under a fallen tree branch.
It’s funny how these cold, predatory, mechanical, alien looking creatures can look so warm and caring while sitting on top of an egg.
Maybe there is hope for some of my [...]
I was very glad to find out the species of this spider, as I grew up playing with them.
These are the most common spiders in our garden. We have several of them on our outside walls, and my mother likes to leave them undisturbed so they can catch mosquitoes. So we see them as our [...]
This is the mighty Phoneutria nigriventer. If you have never heard of it, I am going to explain why, when my brother saw it on our lawn, he came running to me.
We know that all spiders are poisonous, since all but one recently discovered species, are predators. Most spiders don’t pose any risks to us [...]
Most people looking at this page must have seen one of these before. They are pretty common garden spiders everywhere.
The name Argiope argentata means silvery silver face. I guess whoever described it first was really impressed by the silvery coating on their cephalothorax.
The Argiope spiders are very particular about their webs. They make an impecable [...]
