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jumpereyes.bsky.social
Spider Loving Oakland Grrrl
@jumpereyes.bsky.social
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A generalizing naturalist with a strong affection for spiders, insects and birds. Photographer. Maker of ze trouble. Join the discovery ride!
(I've got a more political BS profile as well. This is my "take a break" space.)
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jumpereyes.bsky.social
This Mexican Social Spider got big enough to register more detail in a photo. They only seem to live a few weeks, and I'm monitoring a 3-week-old egg!
#spiders #insects
September 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Good Morning from the Green Bottles!
#flies #insects #shinyhappypeople
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
I lurvs her so. My desk jumper came out so I could sing her some tunes while she snacked on dinner.
#Spiders #Jumpingspiders #insects #supper
August 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Dress red for success, my jumper friends!
mhedin.bsky.social Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Aug 23
new paper, led by Lin Yan from the Elias Lab at UCB

Latent preference for red ornamentation drives interspecific mating in nascent jumping spider species (Habronattus americanus group, F. Salticidae)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
August 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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whosyrhoosier.bsky.social
Watch out!
August 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Sweet Maine bumblebee waiting for the sun to warm - maybe a Sanderson's
#insects #Bees #Maine
August 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
A Maine beauty!
#jumpingspiders #spiders #insects #Maine #blueblood
August 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Looks like this unidentified Phidippus just caught herself a small bee, possibly Certina.
#spiders #jumpingspiders #jumpers #insects #bees
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Psyched that suddenly there's a third potential Mexican Social Spider. So here's the second one again (better shot this am) and the third (not a great shot). And a map from iNat that shows they are not widely observed here yet.
#spiders #insects #social
August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Well, now she has a companion that just showed up on a nearby leaf. The 2nd spider's markings are ever so slightly different, but now I am leaning towards Mexican Social Spiders - Genus Mallos rather than Grey House Spider.
#spiders #insects #whaddayathink
August 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
I'm not sure if this tiny little one that's been living on a cannabis leaf since at least last week is a Grey House Spider, Badumna longinqua, or what. It hangs out under this thin layer of web, always with a dead insect in front or over it. Is it using it for cover?
#spiders #insects #tiny
August 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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seanphicks.bsky.social
It may be shocking to some but I didn't know this was a real thing lol.

#100mm #Photography #Macro #Art #Abstract #Nature #Hiking #Mentalhealth #Meditation #naturephotography #Color #FineArt #PicturesOfNothing #SummerNightmares #spider
A macro shot of a strangely shaped spider with a thorned abdomen busily trifling with its silk web strands
August 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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wonderofscience.bsky.social
The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
Phidippus of some sort, Alameda, CA
August 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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johnlechner.bsky.social
I was trying to think of something unique for today's #AugArthroAwe prompt Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab. While I was outside, I picked up some bark that had tiny algae on it, so I decided to draw on it.
Photograph of a hand holding a small piece of tree bark, on which is painted a tiny horseshoe crab and other sea creatures admid the actual algae growing on the bark.
August 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
There are a heap of small jumping spiders in my Oakland garden this year, as in EVERYWHERE.
Check out this beauty - perhaps a Heliophanus apiatus.
#spiders #jumpers #jumpingspiders #patterns #insects
August 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
jumpereyes.bsky.social
My 1st interaction with a jumping spider was in Roswell, New Mexico in 1980 when a sizable female launched off the hood of a car straight at me as I bent down to take a peek. I plan to post them as I see 'em and learn as I go. Join in!
Mexigonus minutus, Alameda CA
#jumpers #jumpingspiders #insects
August 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM