Would like an ID on the spider, not the ladybug
Large spider on my brother’s car. I moved it onto a board in the bushes and it quickly ran away.
Uploading for a friend who doesn’t have iNat
Not sure what type of spider this is. Dark brown with a small marking on the underside. There are multiple living in this birdhouse, but this large one is the only one that comes out.
Found in coast live oak leaf litter. Placed on the datura only for the sake of the photoshoot.
Here is, probably, the same species of spider from under a different oak on the other side of this house: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202240041 . I ran into many of them on each occasion as I was weeding around the oaks.
I generally don’t make an observation of the same critter twice, since my photos aren’t great, but this spider was so striking under my headlamp that I wondered if it really was the same kind of spider. Those fine hairs appear blue across its entire body when lit up by a flashlight at certain angles— though I did not set out to capture that in these photos. The effect is most visible in Photo #4.