this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

My son had this incredibly bright flashlight, and one evening he shined it out into the yard and claimed that all the little sparkles we were seeing in the grass were spiders looking back at us. I disagreed and told him they were reflections from dew drops. To prove his point, we agreed on a particularly bright sparkle, and approached it keeping the light on it. Sure enough, there was a spider sitting there looking back up at us. We then proceeded to find about a dozen more. I was totally surprised that every one we honed in on turned out to be another spider.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Sounds like wolf spiders. They are actually good mammas and they haul their 'lings on their backs until they are old enough to disperse.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago

Clever use of the aperture reflection

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

These are jumping spiders. Jumping spiders have always been cute! Some of my favourites:

Phidippus audax

Salticus scenicus

Maratus volans

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Portia, Fabian, Bianca and Violet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Are these pictures heavily edited in Photoshop or similar tools?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

And yet studio execs tell me that my live action, spider based remake of the Minions movie "won't find an audience." And "hunting insects is not the same as wacky hijinx."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Cookies! Where tha cookies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Are they hiden owls?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Bullshit. That’s Cookie Monster in disguise!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

These look like Zoidberg's arachnid cousins.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I never thought I’d laugh out loud at the sight of a spider, until today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Spider eyes, they're watching you.
They see your every move

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Couple this with the compilation of spider paws and I just want to cuddle them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Furby vibes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This startles the spider.