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  1. lpw

    "Mousy" Lycosid

    Thanks, Jeff. Looking around, I found some videos of one Geolycosa burrowing (bolus ejection): http://faculty.vassar.edu/suter/1websites/Geolycosa/. Cool.
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    The duck was just floating there, it wasn't mine. Lake Huron is a big bathtub...
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    "Mousy" Lycosid

    Found on the southeastern shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. Can anyone suggest ID? More pics here... Cheers
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    Some final curiosities... 'Sap with the shrooms? A caterpillar The wandering leaf He Who Makes Bath Time So Much Fun Cheers!
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    Back on the beach, an angry-looking bug... And a very reptilian-looking bug...
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    Further inland, some jumping spiders
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    Another wolf spider on the same beach. Can anyone id?
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    Northern shores: Arctosa and friends

    Here are some pics from my yearly visits to the eastern shore of Georgian Bay (Ontario, Canada). A nicely camouflaged Arctosa sp. Another one... Where the...? Ah, there you are: Here's a massive (~2cm LS) specimen I found two years ago:
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    Picture threads are cool

    The late great...
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    The irritable Mr. schioedtei
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    P. ornata
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    Picture threads are cool

    More fun with LED flashlight...
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    Test all new substrate before use!!!

    Ah, yes. Don't drink and post... :wall:
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    Test all new substrate before use!!!

    Going purely on instinct, I'd have to go with the "bad crickets" theory. It's most likely that the crickets were fed something contaminated with pesticide before you offered them to your spiders. This has happened to me before. One way to rule this theory out: did you feed other spiders with...
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    Picture threads are cool

    Defense strategy number two: apparently, these arboreal spiders are not affraid of taking a dip under water to escape "predators"... In the second pic, you can clearly see the air trapped by the setae of leg III. The spider is almost fully submerged. I finally "persuaded" it to...
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    Picture threads are cool

    From the left now...
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    Some featherleg closeups. Leg IV: Leg I: Legs I and II: Miscallaneous...
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    Just hanging in there...
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    The "boy parts"...
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    Body and legs... It's a stretch...
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