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Coco the mighty hunter #spidersky

I love seeing Acorn's gumfoot lines #spidersky

Coco the barn funnel weaver is growing! #spider

Acorn taking her dinner for a walk #spider

Acorn on the hunt 🔪 #spidersky

A yellow sac spider sitting on a window cleaning the end of her foremost right leg

Cleaning the paws #spidersky

Lol!

Those are some fancy paws

Acorn is feeling comfy enough in her new enclosure to hang out in the open. She's already built a web from one end to the other 🕸️ #spidersky

Acorn playing peekaboo in her new house #spidersky

I do sometimes wish they weren't so good at eating other spiders lol

A well-fed cellar spider hanging from their web

A new friend moved into my kitchen, and the two houseflies who have been bugging us for the last several days have conspicuously gone missing 🤔 #spidersky

Oh wow, they do look like jesters in their harlequin print!

Please look at this absolutely stunning Steatoda triangulosa I found at work. She looks like a Rorschach test. #spidersky

We love behaviors that are usually hidden- often due to the sheer fact that they are hard to observe-like sleep. But we’ve also been wondering about things like: what do these spiders do (and how do they sleep) in heavy tropical rain?? We are determined to find out! #portia #fieldfun #RAINforest

Well done Pretzel!

Your planters are being looked after by the pros!

I'm glad someone understands! (also lacewings are some of my favourite insects)

Does anyone else climb on top of their washing machine wearing a headlamp to take blurry pictures of the false widow on their ceiling, or is it just me? #spidersky

Coco came racing off their web to drink some water! Be like Coco and stay hydrated #spidersky

Backlit, black and white picture of a juvenile barn funnel weaver spider viewed from the side, hovering in an invisible web inside a toilet paper roll. The spider has a dead fruit fly in front of and behind them.

I can't get decent pictures of my spiders through the foggy plastic of their deli cups, but I still enjoy this spooky backlit image of Oscar the barn funnel weaver with their dinner #spidersky

This is what it looks like in my basement

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A young funnel weaver spider viewed from the side sitting in a toilet paper roll

This is Oscar, a skinny little funnel weaver with a missing leg I found in a crumpled paper towel behind my bathroom garbage can. I love them with my entire heart.

Happy Halloween! Here's Acorn the false widow taking down a fruit fly 💀 #arachtober

Digging into the archives for the final day of #arachtober and found this very Halloween-y bold jumper who built a hammock in my garage door PIN pad (a popular location for sleepy spiders in my yard over the summer 💤)

say thank you to a spider in your life

It's getting cold and we're entertaining fewer spider visitors. Most of the insects who rode in on our firewood have died off, so the lean months are beginning for my household spiders. But my false widow, Acorn, will have a luxurious winter being a spoiled pet! #arachtober

A ventral view of a juvenile barn funnel weaver spider, standing vertically on an invisible wall of web at the perimeter of their horizontal sheet web, a few inches above the sheet.

Why have you built a wall, Riri? What kind of spider shenanigans are these?? #arachtober