This year, as usual, I posted (well, tried to post) an arachnid picture every day in October for #Arachtober. Here’s the Mastodon thread, but you can also browse through all the photos here. Continue reading Arachtober 2026
Tag: araneidae
Arachnid summer/fall highlights
Back in May I recapped the arachnid highlights of the year to date. Since then I’ve found some species I had no idea occurred here, and seen some things in real life that I’d only ever read about! Here’s my personal top 10 arachnid observations from the rest of 2024.
Field journal: Spiders of the Oculus
Yesterday afternoon, after the rain stopped, I made a quick trip to the Oculus—the long-abandoned space-age modernist pavilion near the foot of the Humber Trail. And within a minute’s walk along the trail in either direction, I found more spider diversity than I ever find in my usual sites! Continue reading Field journal: Spiders of the Oculus