General Observation of Spiders Recorded September 2nd to October 1st 2017

Spiders in this collection of observations are from the same vicinity, and in this way should share similarities to the other journal posts. Temperatures during this time were still warm, and just eyeballing the number of different species compared to what's been recently found, feels like there may be a correlation to either temperature and/or season (just maybe).

The appearance of a woodlouse spider was a pleasant surprise at the time, but less so upon research revealing it may give a painful bite. Cellar spiders and funnel weavers were of course found, and I find it worth noting again, that brown widows were hard to come by. Mouse spiders and tiny comb-foots are usually found in the house around this time.
A large triangulate cobweb spider was found - worth noting that it is related to the comb-foots, even though its at least 5 times the size! Also neat thing to note - the Woodlouse only has 6 eyes instead of 8.

The Colonus hesperus encountered during this time was the one mentioned in a previous post - I've only ever found one, but reading that they can be predators to the brown widows, I wonder if maybe they have something to do with the low numbers of brown widows. I've tried to keep an eye out for them, but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. This one was found on top of the washing machine and was very interactive, almost curious, with my flashlight and phone.

Publicado el 10 de diciembre de 2017 a las 09:00 AM por veravilla