Tag: arachnophobia

calosoma-amitch:

THROWBACK THURSDAY

A female orbweaver spider (Argiope sp.), Sinton TX. July 2013. 

One of the largest I’ve seen, but everything is bigger in Texas.

These orbweavers spend most of their mornings rebuilding their webs along fieldsides, grasslands, and in gardens. Many produce a zig-zag pattern in the center of their web called a stabilimentum, which was, at one point, thought to help hold the web together. Nowadays, it is thought as a means to reflect light in the web that attracts unsuspecting insects, and future meals.

She’s all fat with eggs, looks like. 

Orb weavers are cool because they’re really chill. They just sit in their web, and that’s it. They don’t skitter around all fast or jump on things. Plus, they make huge, pretty orb webs.

bugparent:

bugsaregoodtoo:

This was Sandbag, he’s a camel spider and I could only really post these pictures from his travel tub because the others are pretty gory or blurry, these were taken a bit over a year ago

I really really love camel spiders but they just don’t do well in captivity and there just isn’t enough research yet

#while doing research I found they’ve got a really wild reputation#apparently they eat camels#and they supposedly run 10mph#and they do in fact chase your shadow in the desert to get away from the sun#there’s a funny video of a group of soldiers being scared by one#like actual soldiers are scared of these#they’ve got a nasty bite but not deadly#they chew into food too#seriously just google myths about them it’s wild

Does he have a weird bird beak?