

Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)


Orb weaver spiders use their webs as giant, super-effective external eardrums.
https://youtu.be/D1LJ3uBxRhE (@ about 26:45)


Great pics! And what an awesome spood! Wish I could help narrow it down but sadly I dont recognize the markings/coloration (I’m just a hobby keeper/breeder)
You should post your pics and info to iNaturalist.org and/or arachnoboards.com


If you’re in the PNW it’s not likely a Regal. It could be a Bold? I cant see the pedipalps well enough in the pic to say for sure but I still think it’s a female just based on the big ol’ booty.


Not sure where you’re located, but it looks like a hungry little female Regal


They also appear to enter REM sleep! Excellent video on spider cognition:
She’s a talented artist. For a time when she was younger she scored her dream job restoring vintage wooden carousel horses, and went on to do beautiful colored pencil drawings of them with fantasy backgrounds based on their backstories and ornamentation. She’s fuckin awesome.
She’s normally a phenomenal speller (she devours books), so this was very out of character for her. Luckily she’s also happy to laugh at herself. One of the many things I absolutely adore about her.
My mom fucked up a cake she made for my niece about 10 years ago, and we’ve made sure to tell her “Happy Birtday” every year since



I use “Your face smells like a foot” from Adventure Time
Hy man I’ll take a curry goat, rice and peas


I have no idea who this is or what this is about. I’m sorry for being out of the loop, cowbee.


The whole album is amazing but “XXXmas ladies” is my fuckin jam


This is really cool, going to have to check this out next time we go
Awesome! We have some of those as well! Which of yours is your favorite so far?
We’re relatively new to the hobby and our collection is all pretty common New World Ts (mostly terrestrial, nothing super spicy) - most are still slings under 3".
I love them all for different reasons, but I’m very partial to our G. pulchripes. Our T. albo, E. campustratus, A. geniculata and T. vagans have already brought us lots of joy, and our little L. sazimai (they changed from P. sazimai to *Lasiocyano sazimai at some point) is pretty kickass so far too. Our B. klaasi and GBBs too. Ugh its really hard to pick favorites…
So cute! What species do you keep?



Not sure if they qualify as “uncommon,” but I’m currently keeping about 350 jumping spiders and 30ish tarantulas.


theys the years that belong to that decade. Gotta make that ish possessive
I’ve never heard anyone defend this mistake with this reasoning, points for at least being funny


I know someone that has started saying “normalicy” and I want to scream every time
Was definitely disappointed they didn’t give Tony Stark a drill for a dick like in the original.