Your 8-legged friends

Come see posts about spiders, for spiders, by spiders!

[spidersbakesale]

About

Hello!

This is just another blog dedicated to spiders!

It also serves as sort of a "save folder" for various spider related posts I see on tumblr.

I’m always up to talking about spiders so if you love spiders too, feel free to message me any time! 🕷️

Please keep in mind though that I'm not a specialist and I'm not particularly knowledgeable as a spider lover either. I can't identify spiders for you even if I'd love to! My knowledge is very average. Please consider asking other blogs or looking up communities online!

Sometimes I also reblog stuff with other arachnids and insects and snails or other various creatures. I tag things sporadically unless it’s my own posts though, so this blog is a mess of spiders and whatnot!

Some tags: animation, anthro, arachnid (not spider), art, collage, drider, etc, fashion, fave, giant, gif, harvestmen, humor, info, jumping spider, long post, monster, moth, muffet, my posts, other animals, other invertebrates, other monsters, photo, pokemon, poll, posi, scorpion, sculpture, slug, snail, spider, spiderman, spider monster, stim, tarantula, technology, text, toy, turtle, video, weevil

[kodaswrld]

goth divider set p.2

new creator - requests open - credit me if you use!!

જ⁀➴ credit me please!!

[c0rpse-bl00m]

𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯 🕷️ྀི

[herpsandbirds]

Arrow-shaped Spiny Orbweaver (Micrathena sagittata), female, family Araneidae, Oaxaca, Mexico

photograph by Halla Draco Sebastian

[vintagewildlife]

White lady spider By: Moira Borland From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

[carniekisses]

Your dislike or phobia for certain animals never outweights the animal's right to exist and live, i keep running into this behavior and i don't know why some folks never got to learn that. Who do you think you are

[cosmos-kitty]

Bug Crossing 🐛

I got the idea for this piece on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!

[dirtbrunch]

Go my scarab

[arcaneglitch]

[vee-dmsr]

[mollybeenoel]

jumping spiders and their babies

[randomslasher]

Okay...I'm going to 'um, actually' this post, but the tl;dr is no, this is not real, and hopefully that won't change how you feel about these amazing creatures because they truly are incredible. So no, jumping spiders do not raise their young. Other than a species of ant mimic jumping spider, which is far less "cute" than the species here, this is just not a behavior of this family of spider. Like most spiders, jumpers will care for the egg sac, but once it hatches, the young (called slings) are self-sufficient and will leave the nest immediately. Additionally, a single egg sac can produce anywhere from 50-200 eggs, so raising offspring would look very different than these pictures (most of which appear to be photoshopped, staged, or displaying the sexual dimorphism between male and female of the species--the males tending to be significantly smaller). However, if you DO want to see something cool, please consider checking out the lycosidae family of spider, which is the family of wolf spiders. These spiders DO exhibit more paternal behaviors; the female of many lycosidae species will first carry her egg sac under her abdomen, and will then carry her young on her back until they are large enough to hop off and take care of themselves. I won't attach pictures because while I think they're adorable, wolf spiders don't tend to get the "cuteness" pass that jumpers do. If you're not afraid of spiders or if you're willing to try it out though, I highly recommend looking this up--it's such a cool behavior and I frankly think wolf spiders look like puppies (it's something about the eye configuration). THAT SAID. Just because Jumping spiders don't raise a single offspring to maturity as this post seems to be trying to suggest, don't let that change your opinion of these incredible creatures. Jumping spiders are amazingly intelligent and curious animals, and are commonly kept as pets. They exhibit distinct personalities and many individuals can be acclimated to being handled. I've even had several wild jumpers voluntarily walk onto my hand and chill with me (it's super adorable when they're curious about you, too--they will LITERALLY do the puppy head tilt while regarding you). They're also incredible hunters, using ambush techniques rather than webs to capture prey, hence the amazing jumping ability. This kind of anthropomorphizing of creatures typically seen as "creepy" is pretty disingenuous, because it implies animals have to behave the way humans do before we see them as worthy of respect. Spiders are incredible animals who get a very bad rap for very little reason, but if you take the time to learn about them, they are absolute marvels of evolution and survival that have been wildly successful in filling a massive variety of ecological niches. I encourage anyone who is interested in them (or even slightly intrigued) to watch some videos or read some articles because there are truly awesome things to learn!

[jame7t]

just because youre made of stardust & other gay shit doesnt mean that a bug isnt. be nice to a bug today

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[blackberreh-art]

Polished off a spider form Annabelle ~

[bedupolker]

Golden GALS

(Not explicitly based on any golden girl or the giant African land snail, it's just s pretty good pun I think)

[onenicebugperday]

In response to your jumping spiders post;

could you talk a little about what you find engading about caring for a pet that you know doesn't care about you?

This genuinly interests us, like, one-way affection is normally a very toxic and uncomfortable thing to experience. So to so comfortably say it is one way, at least in a conventional sense, feels impactful.

The post this ask is referring to is here.

I'm not quite sure how to answer this because honestly I never really thought about it. It just didn't enter into my thinking when considering getting invertebrates or fish as pets that they wouldn't care about me. I just really like setting up enriching habitats and then watching them live their lives. They're a joy just to watch, I don't need to interact with them. It's like having a little bit of nature in your house. And it's certainly not any kind of toxic to like something that doesn't like you back, it's not at all comparable to human relationships. I have a dog when I want to cuddle something.

[spiderdungeons]

Lolly the Tarantula 🩰🩷🕷️

[ghostofdecadence-deactivated202]

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