colinpurrington , 9 days ago to random

Golden jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) considering whether to jump onto my camera. You can see the reflection of my flash diffuser quite well in its eyes. #spider #salticidae #macro #nature #JumpingSpider #MacroPhotography

nev , 2 months ago to random

Fantastic spidering today in High Park. Lots of jumping spiders!

1. The flea jumpers (Naphrys pulex) were out in force.
   2 & 3. The other day down by the lake I saw a small, flattened jumper that I thought at the time was Tutelina harti but it turned out to be a totally new-to-me genus, Admestina! And today I found a pine tree stump that was just covered with them—mostly tiny spiderlings but also some slightly larger ones.
2. On the same stump I also saw two Attidops youngi (sadly, only got photos of one), a handsome species I've seen only once before and has only a handful of observations on #iNaturalist! https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/207442822 :inaturalist:

#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #macro

A tiny Admestina spiderling on pine bark. It is elongated and flattened, with a grey head, white abdomen with horizontal grey striations, and striped legs and pedipalps.
A larger, older Admestina, greyer and more opaque. The pattern on its abdomen is a bit like Peregrina galathea's but less complex, and besides P. galathea doesn't have that long flat body shape.
Attidops youngi, a small jumping spider, flattened but short-bodied and round, like certain beetle-mimicking jumping spiders. Its head is dark black-brown with a square of light yellowish spots in the middle, and its abdomen is an unusually glossy brown-black with horizontal pale yellow-brown stripes. Its legs are dark but outlined in pale yellow.

18+ nev , 2 months ago to random

Otherwise lovely walk along the lake today spoiled by (increasingly personal and vaguely threatening) anti-trans stickers, I think it's one person that's leaving them. I would say TERF from the rhetoric but there's so much crossover between them and fascists nowadays that it's not a safe assumption; could be garden-variety right wing. So, anyway, as well as looking out for spiders I was tearing off stickers.

I had A Moment with this (unidentified) tiny adorable silvery-gold and sort of sparkly dark red jumping spider. It was too intimidated to take a midge from me (still pretty large prey for it!) but it did get curious and climb all over my hand.

Was…severely emotionally exhausted the rest of the day and ended up sleeping through most of it.

#ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #macro

Front view of jumping spider. Its palps are somewhat more opaque than its legs, light brown banded with darker red-brown.
Another view of jumping spider, mostly from above. You can see it's down one front leg.
Jumping spider curiously exploring the back of my hand.