I recently came across a pretty interesting blog called Ugly Overload, where there are, of course, many pictures of insects. Poor little creatures, they are not that ugly!
Anyway, I saw this picture of what is being called the strawberry crab over there, and it made me remember this spider that I found a few years [...]
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 picture was taken in my garden in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The N.clavipes is very common over there, and it’s one of the spiders I am most familiar with. In English, it is also known as banana spider, or golden orb weaver.
Their name is one of my favorite things in the world. Nephila is Greek [...]
I took this picture a few weeks ago in my garden, and I was reminded of it by a picture shown to me today by a 8 year old boy from Canada who wanted to know what kind of spider that was. It was the same species as the one in my picture.
Its name is [...]
