Lovely little cricket that was on the bathroom floor, to my surprise. Walked around without hopping. Hopefully I got enough ID characteristics in my photos (not sure what I'm doing).
28 Aug 2020.
Buckingham Springs, Bucks Co, PA.
Female.
Found on the floor.
Finally found the night chirper and showed it the door.
Quite the Sunday morning alarm clock, coming from the shower.
Not a normal part of the indoor ecosystem (thank goodness!). Suspect it hitched a ride in on a houseplant that I recently brought indoors.
I always have a hard time finding singing insects in natural settings, so took this opportunity to record and photograph.
Should’ve included scale in one of the photos; a small insect for the intensity of sound it produces.
Inside house.
Cannibalism! Finally caught them in the act! This one actually dragged the dead one to a different spot.
About 1 day later, the eggs seemed to be fully hatched, but the spiderlings were still clinging to the egg sac.
San Diego County, California, US
inside a barn
A predatory story.
The night before, I saw a fairly large Long-bodied Cellar Spider feeding on this captured dark-bodied spider. When I came back the next morning, I was surprised to find it still feeding, However, on closer inspection, It wasn't feeding on the larger spider, but on the body of a much smaller Long-bodied Cellar Spider that was wrapped up with the larger, dark one. Both prey items were taken down, soaked in EtOH, and identified using a dissecting microscope. The larger, dark spider in an adult male Anachemmis linsdalei (Zoropsidae).
Cellar spiders are known to be cannibalistic and I believe the smaller Long-bodied Cellar Spider likely came down to steal some food from the already captured Anachemmis before it was caught itself. Alternatively, it caught the Anachemmis, and while feeding, was captured by the larger individual.
After unwrapping dozens of cellar spider prey items, this is the first time I've found two wrapped together.
My Mom found this Cellar Spider in our hallway. I tried unsuccessfully to catch it.
Some of these photos were sharpened slightly in Photoshop.
I found this Cellar Spider in my room when cleaning and dusting this counter for the first time in a few years. The room is normally shaded and cool, though stuffy.
Photos 1-8 were edited to have a Flash White Balance in Photoshop. Photo 9 had no such edits. The wall it's against is dark green. Photos 10-11 have an Auto White Balance applied in Photoshop, which isn't correct in coloration (based on the wall), but shows the details better.
I was unable to catch it.
I found this Cellar Spider in my room when cleaning and dusting this counter for the first time in a few years. It was on my windowsill and somewhat small. The room is normally shaded and cool, though stuffy.
I caught it and relocated it outside.
Some of these photos were sharpened slightly in Photoshop.
My Mom found this Cellar Spider in the house. I photographed it but left it where it was. It was on its spiderweb in the hallway, a few inches off the ground.
Photos 3, 7, and 10-12 were brightened in Photoshop.
Eating a house centipede
This Cellar Spider was in a bedroom closet. It has big pedipalps, shown in photo 2. Photo 7 shows the spinnerets.
Initial identification by Blazeclaw.
We have been watching it since 06/29/2016, when we observed it holding onto a bunch of eggs, and posted it on inaturalist. The eggs hatched yesterday or today (07/14/2016.) The first picture shows some of the spiderlings with the adult in the background. The second picture is a close up of the spiderlings, and the third picture is of the adult.
A day after hatching, the spiderlings were starting to disperse, and there was no sign of the egg sac. I wondered if the mother would eat them, or vice versa.
In upstairs bathroom.
a female holding an egg cluster in its jaws
Observed in garage.
This is an adult female in her nursery web carrying a bundle of eggs.
This is a female (on the left eating a crane fly (family Tipulidae) and a male on the right.
A study in phenology; within ten feet of one another, three female Marbled Cellar Spiders have built their spherical maternity webs and have egg bundles in various stages of development.
The other two records:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46192906
It was found inside the house.
5-Y-O Grandson came to tell me about the "Big Spider" in the bathtub. Legs spread to almost 3/4 inch. I took it outside and released it. the bathroom is safe now. =;)
spiderlings (3 weeks later): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/128607178
body length (not including legs) is 2 mm
Testing new flash and slight modifications to diffuser. There are always flies in the trash room.
Your standard household drain fly. Realized I'd never photographed one of these before so why not add it to the collection.
Found indoors. Tiny, just a smidge bigger than a fruit fly. Photo taken with macro lens and zoomed in.
Found on the blinds in my room. Took it to the kitchen area for some photos, then released it there, and it got eyes on a fly right away. It was verrry slowly creeping up on this fly for a good 5 minutes before it pounced.
3.5mm
Prey observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15213349
We've had a lot of these show up recently. I took some photos of the jumping spider in the kitchen area and then released it there, and it found one of these flies right away. The fly being eaten was just a few inches away from the one that lived (for now). I'm assuming they're the same kind.
~3mm
spider observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15213348
It was captured inside the house.
Roughly 1.8 cm long. Was found inside my house by my mother on an umbrella, then captured and photographed. I attempted to release it but it is mostly immobile and non-responsive-- I assume it is reaching the end of its life.