I'm going Sleepcycling

Thought I would add my girl, Jack the Pumpkin King. They could be twins!

TWO beautiful women

Delight

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"This is Carrot Cake, my juvenile Red-Leg Tarantula, and he is currently around 3 years old and only a couple inches long; All he does is sit in the dark all day and he often runs away when I try to give him food. I love him and he hates me.

Please let me know what manner of being he is!"

Carrot Cake is officially a critter!

Submitted for classification by @chronicsheepdeprivation

"This is Carrot Cake, my juvenile Red-Leg Tarantula, and he is currently around 3 years old and only a couple inches long; All he does is sit in the dark all day and he often runs away when I try to give him food. I love him and he hates me.

Please let me know what manner of being he is!"

These photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.

The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

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@onenicebugperday, how about two nice-but-weird bugs?

They were roommates....

here’s the Neon nelli I found yesterday! maybe one of the smallest jumping spiders in the area, but this little guy is an adult male (I’m pretty sure).

a very calm spider, he mostly wandered around flagging his front legs and settling down in crevices. ignored these tiny mites that scurried in front of him, deep in thought

superb little man, all five molecules of him

gif for scale! I think he was so tiny he didn’t register me as a predator and just kept walking around displaying his little legs

I’m having a really rough time right now. Please send emergency beetles, or any other kind of cute bug, thank you 🪲

Here's Carrot Cake, my juvenile Red-Leg Tarantula. He's only a couple inches long now but he'll get to be about as big as my hand, and he's around 3 years old.

I love him and he wants nothing to do with me; he just sits in his coconut hide all day and the most exciting thing he'll do is turn around sometimes.

Wishing you the best.

She jump!!

I was able to get a picture of him, his colors are so nice and vibrant and beautiful. I can't feed him just yet as I'll have to wait for his exoskeleton to harden up but as soon as I'm able I'll give him a nice big squirm!

I might not be very good at drawing spiders, but I sure love thinking about them!

undescribed ballinae species

this spider measures 3mm and was found in the mount coke state forest, south africa. not much else is known about the species and it remains undescribed since these photos were taken in 2014.

photography by vida van der watt.

we have an exciting update on this adorable species!! as of the 31st of december 2020, this spider now has a scientific name of its own after 7 years of being unnamed.

meet Oviballus vidae!

this spider was lovingly named after the person who found them, vida van der walt. you can find the facebook post announcement here. 

His name is Raisin and i would kill for him. 

have I ever told you all the story of how I learned that spiders have a sense of smell in the worst way possible?

you have my attention

Good, now sit and listen to a pair of very bad decisions.

I used to live alone in a house which had just had about 75% of it’s interior removed, so many of the local fauna (beetles, crickets and yes, SPIDERS) quickly found themselves seeking new shelter. 

This was especially the case in the basement, there was never a time when I didn’t have to kick around some bugs when I did laundry or rotating pieces of artwork as I finished them in the studio space upstairs and brought up a new piece to work on

and there were plenty of spiders to deal with. the biggest spiders I’ve seen in the house in the entire 19 years I’ve lived there. and lemme tell ya, I was getting really fucking tired of them creeping up my legs as I did whatever it was I was doing at the time.

so one night I was particularly frustrated, and cue my first mistake. I followed this spider, I was fucking hunting the hunter. That furry, eight-legged cocksucker was dying TONIGHT.

and i decided to kill it with a blowtorch

Now if anyone’s seen Arachnophobia, you’d think setting a spider on fire would be a bad idea (and it is, but we’re getting to that) and in that iconic scene, the spider, engulfed in flame, runs around setting everything on fire in its wake. Now this would probably have been the case if I had used like hairspray and a lighter, but a blowtorch is more of pure, concentrated, firey “fuck this thing in particular” and if you get close enough, you’ll burn the legs off your prey before it can even consider running.

and here’s my next mistake. setting the spider on fire in my basement with tons of cracks in wall. now I knew that bugs smelled pretty bad when you burned them, but this was bad. 2 years now and I’m still haunted by the smell. And also by what happened next. see, in most arthropods, the smell of the dead only brings more of the living, and this was a smell so pervasive, that it lingered in the house for days 

spiders began pouring out of the walls. Easily 2 dozen of them, if not more. I SUMMONED MORE SPIDERS BY SETTING ONE ON FIRE.

so when anyone ever says “kill it with fire” in response to a photo of a spider, I always think of how big a mistake that actually is