#cw arachnids

[magicmetalblog]

InsertAnInvert2024 The theme for February is relationships!

Week 5: Courtship Bark scorpion (centuroides margaritatus)

pinchy stingy mating ritual 🥰

[karakos-little-circus]

regressor!vriska stimboard! :oD (SPIDER TW!!)

whoooo another down!!! sorry if anythin seems outta place im not a big fan of vriska honestly :o( but im doin all of em so here she is, hopefully someone who likes her enjoys this thoughhh!! im also puttin cws in the tags so they can be filtered!!

(center icon was edited by me, and u can feel free to use it!)

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[comic-art-showcase]

Spider-Man by Tom Reilly

[plutoniclol-stims]

Rock Lee anon here! Tysm for the board, I really liked it! I'd like to request a dealer's choice Truffle Cookie [CROB] stimboard as well. You just did one of mine so no rush. Do what you think fits the character best!

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐄 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝

TW: SPIDERS, ARACHNIDS

reblogs >>> likes, please reblog if you like!

hi again!! of course! i love truffle cookie, she’s so coolness :]

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[dragonsheepstudios]

Delight

[psuedofolio]

I think you guys liked the Fluffy Spider Girl

[telekitnetic-art]

FORMLINE SCORPION 🦂🌃

This piece was done as a contest entry for a local contest that unfortunately did not win. Because of that, I feel comfortable sharing it here. This was a pretty experimental piece and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

This piece in question was based off the Northern Scorpion (Paruroctonus boreus), which is the only species of scorpion that lives in Canada and also known to glow a bright blue under UV light. (pictured below)

I'm kinda sad I didn't win, but I'm still proud of how the piece turned out. (Also this piece got finished around the end of October last year, so it's been on the backburner in terms of posting for a while lmao)

[blightowlsreblogblog]

I love her so much look at her trying her best. She looks like she keeps getting distracted and finding new better spots to dig and honestly, same

From here. If you think arachnids with long legs are just scary please watch this solifugid dig her nest (or try to) like SUCH a goofy little person creature. Look how she shoves dirt with her mouth and then gives it a little pat. Is she even making any progress?!

[moralocdfromhell]

People acting like you’re completely evil for simply not liking bugs sets my OCD off a little bit

You can’t say anything about being terrified of spiders online without someone going “but the spider didn’t do anything to you!! Why do you hate them?! It’s unethical to kill them!!” And they’ll start referencing that one poem even if you never said you killed a spider in the first place

Some people literally treat it as a moral fault if you’re afraid of bugs. I saw a comment on Facebook where the conclusion was basically “if you’re scared of bugs, that’s Bad and you need to work on that and learn to be Completely Okay with them or else you’re Bad” like some people don’t have an uncontrollable fear of bugs

A fear of bugs is also an OCD thing. My contamination OCD really doesn’t like them. And some people with trauma who lived in infested/dirty homes also do not like bugs- So acting like being scared of bugs is an inherently bad thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

But I always have a nagging thought at the back of my mind now when I see a scary bug. “Why are you scared of it? You’re a bad person if you’re scared of it.”

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

African Social Spiders: these spiders live in colonies that can contain up to 2,000 spiders, most of which are female; they hunt, forage, maintain their web, and raise their offspring as a group, without any dominance hierarchy or caste system

This communal behavior is extremely rare among spiders, which are normally solitary creatures. The African social spider (Stegodyphus dumicola) is one of the few species that has been identified as a true "social spider," forming colonies and living in communal nests where the spiders work together to hunt, forage, build webs, and care for their offspring.

Above: an African social spider feeding the young spiderlings of her colony by regurgitating food for them, exhibiting a level of maternal/allomaternal care that is relatively uncommon in both spiders and insects

African social spiders can be found in various parts of southwestern Africa, where they will often build a dense silk nest in the branches of a thorn tree and/or shrub. Most of the spiders in the colony are female (more than 85%, according to some studies) and the species itself also has a female-biased primary sex ratio, as researchers have found that female embryos develop in more than 80% of the eggs that the spiders produce.

Above: a group of African social spiders working together to subdue their prey, which will be taken back to the nest so that it can be shared with the rest of the colony

There is no evidence that any dominance hierarchy or caste system exists within S. dumicola colonies. The spiders all cooperate to complete a variety of tasks, such as hunting, repairing the web, foraging, defending the colony, caring for the colony's offspring, etc. While none of them are exclusively assigned to a single task, many have a primary role that they fill, often based on their physical size and condition.

Above: close-up photo of S. dumicola

This species also engages in extreme allomaternal care, meaning that many different spiders (including both mothers and "allomothers") all share the responsibility of caring for the colony's offspring; even the unmated females help out with brood care. The mothers/allomothers tend to the eggsacs, regurgitate food for the baby spiderlings, and even engage in matriphagy, which means that they will eventually be cannibalized by the babies.

From The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior:

... some proportion of females do not reproduce – sometimes as much as 60% – but remain as helpers, contributing to foraging and brood care (allo-mothering). Both breeding females and virgin allo-mothers regurgitate food for colony offspring and eventually let the young consume their bodies. ...

Young that are raised with both mothers and allo-mothers show higher survival and growth than young raised by their mothers alone, suggesting a clear fitness benefit of cooperative breeding.

Spiders of this species generally measure about 2.5 - 3.5mm long; they can be found in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini.

Sources & More Info:

Science Direct: Social Spiders

Current Biology: Quick Guide to Social Spiders (PDF)

Phys.org: Untangling the Social Lives of Spiders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: The Age & Evolution of Sociality in Stegodyphus Spiders

Entomology Today: Social Spiders Divide Labor According to Body Size & Condition

Animal Behaviour: Extreme Allomaternal Care by Unmated Females in a Cooperatively Breeding Spider

National Geographic: Baby Spiders Eat their Mothers

University of Portsmouth: Social Spiders Have Different Ways of Hunting in Groups

Behavioral Ecology: Spider Societies Mitigate Risk by Prioritizing Caution

Behavioral Processes: Warring Arthropod Societies

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: Does the African Social Spider Stegodyphus dumicola Control the Sex of Individual Offspring?

[initial-lime]

I really wanted to do a proper monster!jon design, usually they boil down to guy with a lifetime eye subscription but personally I think it’d be cool if he was no longer even humanoid,,

So, imagine the eyepocalypse but everything is. Even more wrong. Instead of regular Jon walking around with Martin it’s this thing, he can technically still speak like this, only trough tape recorders and there’s an unmistakable sound of recorded crying/wailing playing under his words.

Sometimes when he’s especially upset there’s no words and the recorded crying of all the world trapped in a fearscape hell is all that plays, occasionally the tape rewinds during this or there’s scratches in the recording.

👁‍🗨THE ARCHIVE👁‍🗨

Feel free to ask questions/request art of the archive here (: it’s been a while since I got to do proper horror art, I’ll maybe be doing some anyways but submissions never hurt

(Lmk if I missed a cw tag and I’ll make sure to add it ASAP)

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[spider-snap]

Killer Casually Gets Rid of Body

This jumping spider seems to really like eating ants, I've seen a couple of them snacking this type of ant in the same area. But you can't tell me that it chucked the corpse over the railing by accident.

[crevicedwelling]

right after Francisco’s molt, I wanted to compare Stella to his old exuvia (pinned to preserve so I see how he’s grown). since it was so fresh she perceived it as a live amblypygid and did a threat display!

she starts getting spooked when she smells the exuvia with her antenniform, but only does the claws + push-ups when I try to herd her away from the edge, probably thought the old suit got up and is chasing her. she’s never once done this when I pick her up normally.

someone said this is the bug equivalent of being frightened by a pile of clothes in the dark and yeah that’s exactly it

(Phrynus longipes, Phrynus whitei exuvia)

[14dayswithyou]

So Ren likes arachnids..

*slides sona in, who is a spider demon*

(aside from that I have had two bird eaters before and I can say, spiders are fun pets)

Ren: Woah, A-Angel! That's so cool! Also Ren: *glitches like 4 other otherwordly limbs onto himself to match*

[pie-bean]

They're on a Valentine's day date 💖

[alittleplaytime]

CONTENT WARNING: ARACHNIDS (spiders)

Goth Agere Stimboard!!

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🍯 rqd by: anon!

🌻 note: i'm sorry if this is really basic, i wasn't sure what subgenre you wanted so i went very basic with everything! <3