Posts Tagged: spider
How Many Spiders Have You Saved Today?
It's National Save-a-Spider Day. I did not save a spider today. I did not save one yesterday,...
A redfemured spotted orbweaver, Neoscona domiciliorum, visiting a pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A jumping spider eyes the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Conversation with a Jumping Spider
Photographer: "Well, hello there, Jumping Spider! What 'cha doing?" Jumping Spider: "Sunning...
A jumping spider eyes the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The jumping spider crawls over a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Treat for the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Trick or treat? Treat, please, says this jumping spider. It's time to jump in to help the 13th...
Lacie Newton: Newly Published Article on Trapdoor Spiders, Including One Named for Barack Obama
UC Davis doctoral alumna Lacie Newton, formerly of the Jason Bond lab and now a postdoctoral...
This is the Barack Obama Trapdoor Spider, Aptostichus barackobamai, that Professor Jason Bond named and which Bond, Lacie Newton an other arachnologists study. This is a spider from Sonoma County. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bond)
This map, published in the journal, Evolution and Ecology, shows the locations of the three sibling trapdoor spiders.
Decisions, Decisions! The Katydid or the Bee?
So here's this crab spider stalking a katydid nymph foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia...
A crab spider is about to nail a katydid nymph when a longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, appears on the Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, continues to forage under the watchful eye of the crab spider. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The longhorned bee turns aways from the crab spider, still unaware of the danger. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The crab spider hauls the struggling katydid nymph over the side of the Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)