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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47294613
Great Lakes region, USA. May 2026.
I'm fairly sure this spider is in the Philodromidae family of crab spiders. Maybe it's in the Ebo genus, but I don't dare guess the species. I could also have this ID completely wrong. Any arachnophiles can feel free to correct me. I found this little dude on an apple tree.
I took this with an OM1 and 60mm macro with 26mm tubes.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47254021
Great Lakes region, USA. May 2026.
I was birding again and stumbled upon this little jumper on a developing acorn. I swapped to my macro for the close ups, but my telephoto did pretty well for those zoomed out shots. "Eris" is the Greek goddess of discord and strife. "Militaris" is Latin for "of a soldier" or "military", so this spider's name is "discord of a soldier" which is pretty badass imo. This spider wasn't too interested in the many tiny beetles that walked right up to it. I was hoping I could get some action shots, but alas.
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Great Lakes region, USA. April 2026.
Ugh... I'm glad I ripped it off before it took hold. They give me the heebie-jeebies. I did think to bust out my macro lens before burning it with fire.
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cross-posted from: https://mastodon.neatobuilds.com/users/mrpistachios/statuses/114676877173390438
Little happy spider on a rose petal.
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Found this big chonker in the garden, about 4-5cm big, never seen anything like it here before. Any ideas what it could be? : ) Thanks in advance!
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We just moved to Michigan and these are all around the property (including the basement). Just want to know if it's something I need to be concerned about. Google lens is inconclusive, at least with my non-existent knowledge.
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Since they are found in the same places as Scorpions, these always creep me out. Once I see what it is, I shoo it elsewhere. As long as they are handled gently they don't release that defensive stink. Scorpions here readily act defensive, these are much more relaxed. Their colouration is quite interesting.
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Of particular interest is the extreme size discrepancy between male and female in this species. This was also one of the largest females I've ever seen!
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Sometimes you can't decide between beauty and horror, so you just walk the line!
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I recently came across this lovely(?) crab spider on a birding excursion. The bird-dropping spiders of Phrynarachne are apparently not only visual but also olfactory mimics, for all intents and purposes attempting to fool both predators and prey. Apologies for the slightly subpar image quality; I didn't have my macro lens and had to improvise.
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Found it on my son's hair after a 10min visit to our veggies garden. My guess is that it might be a tick but we are not in an area of lime disease and although it's an open, rather unkept, field the only mammals I see around are 2-3 stray(?) cats.
The photo was done using a stereoscope+smartphone. The dark lines underneath are .4 to .5 mm.
Any pointers would be welcome.
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Here's another old picture from my vault. This is one of our Greenbottle blue tarantulas (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens). We spent the day watching this little guy molt from start to finish and took pictures of the whole process. You can see in this picture that he is laid out on his back on his molting malt. At this stage he has split from the carapace lengthwise down the sides and is currently pulling his legs out of the molt. We had two at the time and wanted to breed them but they both turned out to males.
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Here's a pic of my favorite little guy and one the only good pictures I've ever taken. Unfortunately he turned out to be a male so I didn't have him too long but he was a great tarantula to keep.
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This one I took about 12 years ago in Yucatan. I was inspired to post it because I saw other photos of arachnids showing off their babies ;)
More babies:
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