Resting on my knuckles. These adorable little orb weavers are always a great find.
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 [...]
I couldn’t keep myself from laughing when I was playing with it, and it kept throwing me gangster signs.
Also known as white-banded crap spider, this is another spider from the Thomisidae family (same as this one). The scientific name is Misumenoides formosipes, which apparetly is latin for pretty feet. Aww.
There are a few other genus [...]
“What, that’s a real spider? Are you sure it’s not made of plastic?”
Yes, I’m sure. I’ve seen it move. In fact, I poked at it myself (hehe).
This is a pretty amazing spider. They are also known as flower crab spiders ( from the Thomisidae family). They are specialized as making themselves look really attractive to [...]
This happy looking spider is one of the many in the Lycosidae family, also known as wolf spiders, or how we call them in Brazil, grass spiders.
This one is sometimes confused with the dangerous Phoneutria, the wandering spiders, because they also have red chelicerae, but they are not nearly as dangerous.
They have a painful [...]
