#Arachnid

[herpsandbirds]

Could I request some different peacock jumping spiders? They are my fav kind of jumping spider, is it called subspecies or genus(?) Curious on that-

But tysm, love seeing the different animals in the world they are beautiful from your wonderful blog!

Peacock jumping spiders are gorgeous!

They are all jumping spiders in the genus Maratus. Here's a few for you...

Peacock Jumping Spider (Maratus gemmifer), male displaying, family Salticidae, Perth, Western Australia

photograph by Jamie Hall Definitive Imaging 

Banksia Peacock Spider (Maratus mungaich), male displaying, family Salticidae, Western Australia

photograph by Flynn Prall

Peacock Jumping Spider (Maratus nigromaculatus), male displaying, family Salticidae, Australia

photograph by JK Sanders

Peacock Spider (Maratus volans), male displaying, family Salticidae, Australia

photographs by Jurgen Otto

Peacock Spider (Maratus caeruleus), male displaying, family Salticidae, Australia

photographs by Jurgen Otto

[brella-boi]

Custom order spiders I've done for some recent clients!

The first two are the client's OCs in spider form :]

[unholyeldritch]

Hard work at its finest.

[halenhusky309]

*Transformers One has female transformers doing their jobs in harsh and cold environments that require them to act tough and rough...

*Someone: hOW dARe thE mOViE bUTcHErED fEmINinTY fROm tHEsE cHArACTeRs???

... They are sexless alien robot, Harold! Not the human characters from the 50s.

[carniekisses]

I'd watched a video about fashion where, at some point, an excerpt from an antique magazine disparaging large busts is shown, & OP was like "well I like them, works as a pillow for a little nap inbetween dances at a ball" Don't remember the video's name as I started this last year LMAO but I guess it's done with now

[spidersflower]

wolf spider (perhaps)

edit: it may be Drassyllus creolus but a proper ID is still pending :)

[vintagewildlife]

Two-tailed spider (Hersilia caudata) By: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson From: Sahara Desert 1984

[usgsbiml]

The Duck Spider. Unsure to say the least which species this might be, but I am calling it the Duck Spider. Beltsville, Maryland

[emmaklee]

spider eye arrangements

[bedupolker]

I have no clue how to send this in a coherent way but I hope so badly miss mousey knows a grasshopper mouse, AKA the werewolf mouse. I just think one of her babies learning how to SCREEEEEE howl at the moon would be so fun.

I imagined Mariella (mom) have a grasshopper mouse cousin who's some kind of sustenance hunter wild woman and obviously a great babysitter.

[herpsandbirds]

Do you perchance have any scorpions to share? Trying to look them up for inspiration for an oc and I'm getting a ton that look kinda the same. If you DO have some, could I ask for a variety that look visually disinct from each other? What that means is up to you, I myself don't really know how different they *can* be

Let me show you a few scorpions that I have roaming around the blog...

Fynbos Burrowing Scorpion (Opistophthalmus macer) family Scorpionidae, Greyton, Western Cape, South Africa

Venomous

photograph by Chad Keates

Scorpion (Hottentotta franzwerneri), mother with pups, family Buthidae, Morrocco

Venomous.

photograph by Giannis Argyropoulos

Thick-tailed Scorpion (Tityus fasciolatus), T - under a black light and B - white/full spectrum light, family Buthidae, Brazil

The exoskeletons of scorpions fluoresce under black lights.

Though this is helpful for finding them at night, for scientific surveys, they should not be kept long term under these lights in captivity, as this light will degrade the exoskeleton, making it weak.

photographs by Jean Martins

Emperor Scorpion (Pandinus imperator), family Scorpionidae, found in West Africa

photograph by John

Indian Red Scorpion (Hottentotta tamulus), family Buthidae, Mangaon, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar 

Flat Rock Scorpion (Hadogenes troglodytes), family Hormuridae, Limpopo, South Africa

photograph by Chad Keates

[spidersdaily]

[eron-transformers]

recent doodles

Mild spoilers for transformers one below!

[kedreeva]

She has finalized her decision and chosen the mailbox with her name on it to start making her hammock!

[bowelfly]

a tender dram for the kind brother