We're two thirds through the month of Arachtober. (The month when a bunch of spider lovers post our arachnid — spiders and their kin — photos to the Flickr Arachtober group pool. ) Which I've barely mentioned here this year, I'm not sure why. And though I've posted several of the Arachtober spiders here, I've somehow missed this one. I posted her photo to the Arachtober pool the second of October, and then again, two more photos today, for Arachtober Day 20.
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Here she is, on the outside of my window, giving me a good view of her underside. Posted October 2. |
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And here, a few minutes later, she's hunting among the cosmos stems. |
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Showing off her red side markings. Posted tonight, October 19. |
She's a jumping spider, Phidippus sp., probably P. johnsonii. The females have red sides to their abdomen, with a black stripe down the centre. Males' abdomens are solid red. I've seen several of her cousins on the wall behind my flowers.
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Ya estamos a dos tercios del mes de Arachtober. (El mes cuando un grupo de amantes de las arañas subimos nuestras fotos de arácnidos — arañas y miembros de su familia — al archivo Flickr Arachtober. Y apenas lo he mencionado aquí este año, no entiendo porque. Y aunque he subido fotos de algunas de las arañas recientes, se me había pasado esta. Subí su foto a Flickr el segundo de octurbre, y otras dos hoy, para el Dia 20 de Aractober.
- En mi ventana, mostrándome una vista ventral. Subí esta foto el 2 de octubre.
- Unos minutos más tarde, anda cazando entre los tallos del cosmos.
- Aquí muestra los diseños rojos en el abdomen. Subí esta foto hoy.
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