#hacklemesh weaver

[no-side-us-art]

Portrait of Lady Hacklemesh Weaver

[chevantula]

The girl

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Arachtober!

Found this hacklemesh weaver on my fence the other night, it was pretty well camouflaged.

[box-of-critters]

I swear my work is absolutely covered in these guys. I had never seen a Hacklemesh Weaver prior to working at this place. Guess they are fuckin everywhere here.

I've seen them ranging in size from fuckin tiny little dudes that I barely notice at first to vaguely wolf-y big.

Now that I know what they are, they are pretty recognizable, but I thought they were false-wolfs the first time I saw one. This is considering that the last two images from above was the first one I saw. It was 01:00 in the morning, and dark as fuck, with these photos being the best look I got of it as it was runnin away, so no surprise I was thinking zoropsidae.

I think they're cute.

Dates Taken: 29 September 2024, 04:03, 02:15, and 25 September 2024, 06:37, respectively

[kepler-1b]

Did I ever mention to you guys that I love spiders?

I got a visit from a very chill and very big black lace weaver (amaurobius ferox) I let him outside and he quickly disappeared underneath a pile of leaves

[lampfaced]

So tonight I made friends with a spider that crawled into my workspace and I decided to pick up and let run over my hands, partly because he was a tiny spider and partly because I didn't want to accidentally squish him. I'm pretty sure he's a male Hacklemesh weaver [Amaurobius ferox], based on appearance and geographical range. He hung out with me for over two hours. At first he'd get up and scuttle around on my arms or legs [wherever I'd let him run] every so often, and I lost track of where he was a few times. Eventually he found a spot on my wrist and hunkered down and didn't move for a good half an hour or so. Before he'd hold still for a max of five minutes but this time around he didn't just hold still but he hunkered down and sort of tucked his legs in. I gently blew on him to make sure he wasn't dead, and he wasn't. Just spider-sleeping. And he went right back to 'sleeping'. He very slowly shuffled to the right over time, so that he was under that fold you can see, but at the time of these photos he hadn't quite settled down. He was such a sweetie.

I tried taking pictures with one hand and these were the best I could do. He's so tiny. He's a little hard to spot; he's near the bottom of where the seams on my wrist all meet.

He's now in a cluster of bunched-up Kleenexes in a small box where my cat can't get to him. Since I have to get up and do things that would disturb his sleep. Not putting him outside right away because it's cold right now.

[cynicaltuba-blog]

So at work i was cleaning a pair of glass doors and this large Hacklemesh Weaver descended on me with a thread. it was like "SUP BRA."

so i grabbed a door wedge off my cart and prepared to outright smash it in fear but then I thought of Chaifootsteps scowling at me for murdering the creature so i was like

FINE OUT YOU GO

so i tried to catch its web thread with the door wedge to move it out the door into the outside, it climbed up, the web merely being moved against it, not caught on it.

Annnnd i freaked out thinking it was going for my arm so i dropped the door wedge, backed away, put my arms up and was like  "PEACE. PEACE BRO." and it went above the door frame starring.

menacingly.

needless to say I didn't finish that door.