#cobweb spider

[onenicebugperday]

Mirror-ball spider, Thwaitesia pulcherrima, Theridiidae

Photographed in Madagascar by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[spiderdungeons]

there's a corner on my stairs that i leave dirty because there is a triangulate cobweb spider who lives there and eats the feeder crickets that escape my room, lol. it's like a dungeon crawl for them i guess.

anyways, this morning i discovered the spider had an egg sac with ONE surviving baby ;o;

btw she will not eat the baby and the baby won't eat her! a lot of cobweb spiders, including this species, are attentive moms who share resources with their babies until they disperse. so she's just hanging out with Mama :)

[northerlyy]

Cobweb Spider (Phylloneta pictipes), male, taken May 10, 2026, in Georgia, US

A hungry cobweb spider guarding his buffalo treehopper nymph meal within a curled leaf! My favorite part of this image is how nicely you can see this guy's pedipalps. Males of this species are born looking exactly like females, but they eventually become redder with a smaller abdomen and large, deep red palps. This individual is a fully-grown adult, and he will soon leave his crafted leaf shelter in search of a lady friend!

[flowerbarrel-art]

Wanted to share some of my favorite photos I took of bugs and spiders. The spiders will be at the end. When you see the boxelder bug on the pink box and the paper wasp that’s the last of the insects.

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[cryptid-artha]

@onenicebugperday

Meet Herrah, the Kitchen Spider! My household has accepted her as an unofficial family member. My wife and bestie/roomie used to be afraid of spiders but they both find her really neat now and we are very careful with the blinds so we don't disturb her or hurt her by accident.

I believe she's a false widow! I think either Staetoda Grossa or Staetoda Nobilis. Looking at some pictures, she matches a Nobilis more than a Grossa.... But photos are very inconsistent. It's hard to find actual identification. Just pages and pages about how to get rid of them. Sad!

She's been there since she was a little baby and we are all attached now. We love our Kitchen Spider.

In the second picture, she's eating a tasty fly!

Isn't she pretty?

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Arachtober!

This adorable little cobweb spider (Thymoites sp., maybe) popped up so bright red on the beat sheet!!

[admiralgiggles]

Teamwork makes the dream work.

[seanpgilroy]

Found this guy at the park the other day and had no idea what he was. I thought maybe he was a male Argiope aurantia because he was shaped a lot like a male Argiope trifasciata.

Nope.

Turns out he's a male Latrodectus variolus, a.k.a. the northern black widow.

Which seems obvious in hindsight, but never occurred to me because I thought all male widows (widowers?) were tiny. This guy had a leg span of at least an inch and a half.