@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksWow. There's a Mediterranean flatmesh weaver (Oecobiidae) that constructs a tent-like retreat decorated with plant parts and dead insects. Five-spotted star-web spider. #spiders #inaturalist #oecobiidae https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90301338
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksSpider web with dried slug mucus. I wonder how the spider feels about this. 🌿 #slugs #spiders #iridescence #nature #gastropod
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@jan_j@chaos.socialJon Bernthal is a great Punisher. And he's got great chemistry with Tom Holland.
#spiderman
@luana@wetdry.worldJust watched the new #SpiderMan. It's cool, it's good. I liked it. But it'd have been way better without all that erase his friends memory bullshit from the previous movie.
Seriously, of the 3 spider man trilogies this is my favourite but this just totally ruins it. Ugh.
Will we at least have one more movie in this trilogy where they're friends again and together and stuff?
(also do bring Jean back again, she's cool. I wonder what the x-man crossover will look like in the next avengers.)
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksOne of my favorite mosquito facts is that there's a spider in Africa, the vampire jumping spider (Evarcha culicivora), that specializes on mosquitoes plump from a recent blood meal. It was described in 2003. #inaturalist #mosquitoes #spiders #blood #salticidae #insects #africa https://youtu.be/dA6sCQlHPEs?t=78
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksAnd then there's Paracyrba wanlessi, the jumping spider that pulls mosquito larvae out of water-filled internodes of decaying bamboo. Found in Malaysia and described in 1996. #spiders #salticidae #bamboo #malaysia https://salticidae.pl/diagnost/paracyrb/wanlessi.htm
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksThe super common but super beautiful orchard orbweaver (Leucauge venusta). The genus name, courtesy Charles Darwin, means "with a bright gleam." The species epithet means "beautiful." Swarthmore, PA, USA. #spider #spiders #orbweaver #nature #silk #web #tetragnathidae
