#meshweaver

Hi there! I can’t get more specific than a family on this one - she’s a meshweaver in the family Dictynidae!

I think I've gotten less squeamish of insects since starting this blog. Even fond of some of them. But not spiders. Sorry.

A common type of freighter from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The same model was used for the Sanction in "Symbiosis," the Erstwhile in "The Outrageous Okona," and the Arcos in "Legacy" (and in different configurations it portrayed additional ships in further episodes). The physical model was created by Greg Jein and Bruce MacRae, and a computer-generated model was created by Douglas E. Graves to replace missing footage when the latter two episodes were remastered. That digital model probably formed the basis for these images credited to Fabio Passaro from Eaglemoss' Official Starships Collection.

If I had to make an educated guess on the species of this fella I’d put my money on a male South American toothed hacklemesh weaver, but it’s hard to say since there are quite a few species that look vaguely like this. Maybe Amaurobius? Either way, spiders with this body type are definitely ground-dwellers more than climbers, and outside they would be found around fallen trees and leaf litter and that sort of thing where they’d hunt other arthropods. So if you wanted to put them outside, around a wood pile or something similar would be perfect :)

:)

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