#small spiders

The Case for Pouch Confetti Spiders:

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Pros: Best portability out of the whole tier list, multiple spiders means multiple hiding spots for them, likely to get the better scares, could leave spiders in the gas stations or wherever along the way

Cons: The confetti is a big mess, higher chance that I will loose them along the way

The Case for Your Everyday Average Krampus:

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Pros: My mom made him for me, he’s soft and crochet. Wards off ghosts because he’s slightly demonic. A silly little guy. Has a fondness for puppets and drinks. He deserves to see the world and all it has going for it.

An Unusual Lynx Green lynx spiders (Peucetia viridans) are beautiful little green spiders that hunt by hiding in either flowers or nearby vegetation. They wait for other insects to come to the flowers to feed and they pounce on them, grabbing them with their long front legs and quickly biting them to cause paralysis. So far this year I’ve had a lot of good luck finding spiders with their prey.…

The Incredible Fable of the Spider and the Fly has Come to Life shows a canopy jumping spider with the house fly that it recently captured. It tells the story of how the author/artist encountered this spider with prey in a most unusual situation.

Pounced I’m sure most of you are familiar with the old tale of the spider and the fly. In it, the spider entices the fly into it’s nest only to then capture and eat it. Well last week I got to experience at least part of that story in real life. Of all the unusual places to have an unusual wildlife encounter, I was at the local landfill dumping my trash. One of the things I was getting rid of…

The Spiny Orb Weaver is a Colorful and Beautiful Spider explains the author/artist’s thinking process while creating tonight’s image.

Black and White and Spiny I hadn’t really done anything artistic lately, so I decided to play around with this photo of a spiny orb weaver spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis). My original plan was to make some changes to the colors of the spider itself, but after I had done my basic editing I really liked the colors of the spider as they were. So instead of changing it’s colors, I decided to…