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I saw this incredible little guy today and thought of you! I've never seen a jumping spider before in person

@implicatures !!!! So handsome!! I remember the first time I saw a Phidippus; all jumpers are cute but Phidippus jumpers are on another level ❤️

#submission #spiders #salticidae #jumping spiders

Brand new (to me) jumper!! Usually I hesitate to ID down to species level on unfamiliar specimens, but I’m almost positive this is a female Sassacis vitis (which I have also seen called the “buttonhook leaf-beetle jumping spider”)

#my photos #spiders #salticidae #jumping spiders #she’s very gold but it’s hard to tell in photos #repeated apologies about not quite being able to get clear macros with the phone’s native camera #I just need to carry the lens around more I guess

Another female Phidippus californicus; seeing these everywhere all of a sudden!

#my photos #spiders #salticidae #jumping spiders

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Adult female Phidippus californicus (potentially mother to THIS CHILD, although the species is very common around here)

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Never mind, these are a little better:

#hello again ma’am #my photos #spiders #jumping spiders #salticidae

Adult female Phidippus californicus (potentially mother to THIS CHILD, although the species is very common around here)

#I have a phone with macro mode now but could not get close enough to her because of huge thorns lol #also since the sun wasn’t reflecting at the right angle I must inform you that the chelicerae are dark green #my photos #spiders #spider #salticidae #jumping spiders

Juvenile salticid on a barrel cactus fruit; I think Phidippus sp?

#my photos #spiders #salticidae #jumping spiders

Uncooperative Metaphidippus chera who’d rather run up and down my hands than stay still for photos

#my photos #spider #spiders #salticidae #jumping spiders

Mother Theridiid / cobweb spider (guessing genus Theridion) and her spiderlings!

#my photos #spiders #spider #theridiidae #cobweb spiders #spiderlings

Friend on my car door the other day! I think running crab spider / family Philodromidae

#my photos #spider #spiders #running crab spiders #philodromidae #the iNaturalist photo analyzer is trying to tell me this is Pisaurudae but I respectfully disagree

Duskywing / genus Erynnis

#my photos #insects #butterflies #skippers #Hesperiidae #Lepidoptera

Dragonfly; I believe either a juvenile or female variegated meadowhawk / Sympetrum corruptum

#my photos #insects #dragonflies #Odonata #Libellulidae

New-to-me butterfly, I’m thinking genus Chlosyne

#my photos #butterflies #Nymphalidae #lepidoptera #have been trying to get the dragonflies for a week now but they’re being infuriating

Scrub hairstreak butterfly / genus Strymon

#my photos #butterflies #Lycaenidae #lepidoptera #hairstreaks

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Striped sweat bee / genus Agapostemon

#sweat bee spam!#now see I really liked this one and no one appreciated how hard it was to get lol #sweat bees #bees

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Sweat bee / genus Augochlorella

#a better photo I got back when I could get away with stalking the bees for longer #sweat bees #bees

A sweat bee, probably genus Augochlorella

#these move SO fast between flowers that I really need time to stand and wait for them #so that’s why these are bad lol because I have a coworker and can’t stand by a bush for twenty minutes #I’ll get one eventually #my photos #bees #sweat bees #Halictidae #Hymenoptera

A very curious female jumping spider (Habronattus sp.)

#my photos #spiders #jumping spiders #salticidae #jumped right into my hands while I was photographing her #every so often I get one who’ll do that and it’s a blessing every time 🥲

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