Fiona Cross

Extremely wholesome and short thread of library-related goodness! 😍 ^MT

Happy birthday #BillAndTedDay Let’s all try and be excellent to each other. Even during hard times.

Do follow the best library in Aotearoa.

Not me! Only rain ☔️

Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants. Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.

Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears Nature - Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

"Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears" shorturl.at/VwQww

Yes, they're really good there. You'll be good as gold ☺️

I am not blocked! 🕷

Thank you. I definitely find Mother's Day hard.

Fantastic. I've never been! It would definitely be good to see a bit more of Canada

I hope to see you there, Dave!

The man who trades shares surrounded by a spiderweb It started eight years ago when he saw a daddy long-legs starting to spin a web in his office. The web’s been growing ever since.

“I first noticed a spider web within a week of being here. I thought ‘ah well, I’m a pretty out of it dude so let’s have some spiders’". What a delightful person! #LoveSpiders 🕷 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

A newly emerged monarch butterfly resting on a milkweed plant. A large caterpillar is close by, busily eating and will soon be following in the butterfly's footsteps.

So happy to see this in my garden!

Paging @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social!

Please say hi to Daiqin from me, too! 🕷

🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

Folks, it's just not worth travelling to the US right now.

Identifying false widow spiders | Natural History Museum A guide to the four most common species of false widow spiders found in UK homes.

That looks like a Steatoda (false widow) www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/id...

It's been a lovely day. I really enjoyed seeing some art, and I was grateful for your post because I hadn't thought of going to the pop-up museum. Also, I have a spider who wants to eat ALL my cake, but she's not allowed 😊

Thank you!! I'm not often here on my birthday, so it's good to take some time out to do things like that. And what a beautiful day, too!! 😊

You've inspired me to go and check this out today, Beck! Today is my birthday 🕷

a massive Paraphidippus aurantius jumping spider feeds on a caterpillar, August 6th, 2021

my most observed species on iNaturalist - lucky to be in an area so rich with beautiful salticids 🙇

Sign on a wall reading ‘Behold Me Aesthetics”

Pirate beautician.

LOOOOOOK at her MOON egg sack!!!! 🌕🕷️

A fluffy grey jumping spider on a green leaf. It is looking down and to the right of the camera and showing its metallic green chelicerae.

For St Patrick's Day, I have found this photo of a lovely Phidippus regius sporting some sparkly green chelicerae 🤩 #LoveSpiders

Front-on view of a golden brown female jumping spider. She has long, hairy legs.

I spent some time for #SpiderSunday photographing Helpis minitabunda females. I found them here in Christchurch, New Zealand #LoveSpiders

I love this video. From the look, to the finish.

The Australian spider that seems to be spreading across the North Island In the past nine months, two Huntsman spiders have been spotted in the same Napier suburb, leading arachnologists to suggest that the Australian native may already be establishing itself in the area.

Last night, I spoke with Emile Donovan (Radio New Zealand) about the huntsman spiders that have recently been found in Napier, as well as other spiders that have made their home here #LoveSpiders 🕷 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Huntsman spider finds new home in NZ A breed of Huntsman spider appears to be establishing itself in Napier.

Huntsman spiders have been found in Napier - I'll be talking with Emile Donovan about this tonight at 10:45 PM on Radio NZ 🕷 #LoveSpiders

A quote for international women's day today.

"[The point of diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives is not] to give less able people jobs or places at university, but to ensure racism, discrimination and privilege were not giving the much less able a clear path to employment or education"