Early December 2017 Spider Observations

Alright, the post everyone was waiting for after I've been complaining about it for months - Brown Widow Palooza. For some reason, this December, with it's weird 80+ degrees in the day, 40/50's at night; has spawned a large number of very small brown widows around my house. Truthfully, some of them may be from October or November, since a few I had seen were mid-sized (one is pictured here), but there were at least 10 other very tiny L. geometricus' hanging around in the 20 minutes I spent poking around, along only one side of my house. What I also found interesting, was that a week prior, in a friend's yard in Rosemead, there was no shortage of large, full-grown brown widows, but I have had such trouble finding anything larger than midsize near mine.
Not sure what to make of the mini explosion of brown widows, especially since spiders are cold-blooded, I wouldn't expect them to pop up like this so suddenly when the nights are so cool.
Happy to report the feather-leg is at least content enough in it's spot to have constructed a beautiful zig-zag web.
There were other sightings, including a possible comb-foot, and an entelegyne spider? The latter seemed to be affected by the cold, as they were sluggish to run, but still irritated enough with my paparazzi to quickly burrow into a crevice.

Publicado el 10 de diciembre de 2017 a las 10:41 AM por veravilla