The Grandspidey Of All Orb Weavers
The Natural History Museum’s Spider Pavilion doesn’t open up for a few more days  so in the meantime if you’re into arachnids like I am why wait? Just come…
One Big Family
Yeah this is the second time I’ve posted about this spider and her recently hatched brood, but sometimes the most wonderous and amazing things bear repeating (click to triplify): Making…
All Creatures Great & Small; Not Some
…the countless centipedes, beetles, and spiders I had the pleasure of meeting and a bit of guilt at disrupting and displacing as they evacuated frantically from my excavations and exertions….
A So Most Trivial and Glorious Thing
I read a poem this morning shared by an acquaintance on Facebook. It was written by a woman who explained with regret why she killed a harmless spider that startled…
Today’s Episode Of Lunch Hour Amateur Biologist Brought To You By…
…usual tortoise self. On this morning, passing the birdbath on my way to Buster’s hutch, I sighted a spider flailing a bit in the water, but when I went to…
Meet Our Brown Widow!
The inside of our garage door has been home to a brown widow spider and her various egg sacs for at least a year now. Most of the time when…
Mind If I Bug Ya?
…jumping spider (my favorite of all spiders!) that put it on dah glass outside my hotel room 11 stories off the deck for awhile yesterday morning. I opted to bring…