I'm finding spiders every day, now, after a strangely spider-free summer. They're here at home, out in the garden, and yesterday, hiking down to Elk Falls, I passed three lurking in the shadows and a long web stretched across the trail. A welcome sight.
These are some I found at home. Four and a half spiders.
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One. She's a Common Crab spider, Xysticus cristatus. |
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Same spider. I was following her all around the kitchen. |
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And here she is again, with the half spider. A molt of one of the little ones that hide behind the tiles. |
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Two. A small False Black Widow, Steatoda grossa. That white ghost is just a bump in the paint. |
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And a two-fer, spiders three and four. Cellar spider, eating a Woodlouse spider twice her size. She drained the abdomen and dropped the rest on the floor for the staff (me) to clean up . |
And with a whole month to go before Arachtober, I might have my quota of spider pics on time.
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Ahora estoy encontrando arañas todos los dias, esto después de un verano curiosamente sin arañas. Las veo en casa, en el jardín, y ayer, bajando el sendero hacia las cataratas, vi tres, y además una telaraña larguísima que se extendía de un lado del camino al otro. ¡Otra araña con grandes ambiciones!
Estas cuatro y media arañas las encontré en casa;
- Una araña cangrejo, Xysticus cristatus.
- La misma; la estaba siguiendo mientras exploraba mi cocina.
- Y otra vez, ahora con la media araña: una muda de una de las arañas miniaturas que vive atrás de los azulejos.
- Esta es la que llaman la viuda negra falsa. (Totalmente inofensiva.) Steatoda grossa. El fantasma blanco es una protuberancia en la pintura de la pared.
- Y dos por el precio de una. Una araña fólcida, Pholcus phalangioides, comiéndose una araña Dysdera crocata el doble de su tamaño. No la pudo terminar; se chupó el interior del abdomen, y dejó caer los desechos al suelo. Cuenta con servicio de limpieza gratis, (yo) al fin.
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