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could be a member of genus Anelosimus https://bugguide.net/node/view/50214

take a look at the work of arachnologist Jason Bond, who has named a lot of new species with pop culture figure names, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-spider-species-named-for-angelina-jolie-bono/ he was on a few episodes of the Colbert Report, though i think the clips have been wiped from...

WNC has great big wolf spiders that do very well in captivity, go snag you a Tigrosa or Hogna the trick to wolf spiders is to go out at night with a bright headlamp and look for eyeshine

world spider catalog is an invaluable resource. register for an account (free) and you can download so many papers https://wsc.nmbe.ch/

while that is much more likely to be the case, it isn't as funny :rofl:

i have zero experience with amblypygi... is it just coincidence that P. whitei has... white spots around its eyes?

never seen a white hogna lenta maybe look for arctosa littoralis

i can't speak for connecticut specifically, but inat has plenty of observations. in my experience in other parts of the eastern US, uloborus is quite common - but only active at night, and even as adults are quite small.

it's an orbweaver, maybe eriophora ravilla or neoscona crucifera

great photos! fascinating to see the differences between the castes

that first one looks like a crab spider (family thomisidae) to me, but i'm not familiar with aussie spiders

that orange stripe on the prosoma generally ends near the eyes in aspersa, i'd say this is georgicola def female, big beauty!

another shot of the chelicerae, showing off the cool Atypid endite i found two crummy photos of the other web i referred to, the one draped across the forest floor. i believe i noticed this one after a few rainy/stormy days washed away some stuff off the forest floor (at first i assumed this...

i haven't been able to find anything suggesting that Sphodros builds webs in grass (though at least one source notes S. rufipes seems to have a preference for smaller trees at their study site). i've posted about my purseweb-in-grass observation in multiple communities, but so far this is the...

something like a horsehair worm. the worm likely emerged from the spider's abdomen, in which it had been growing for a little while. i've seen it happen to wolf spiders, cockroaches, a cricket... :\

none of them were particularly close to water, the nearest stream at least a few hundred feet away. one was in a loblolly pine stand, the others were in hardwood forest (actually according to the park website, it's 'acidic oak-hickory forest' - it's a lot drier than most of the woods around here)

cool spiders. i recall spending plenty of time searching for them many years ago, in vain -- and until july of this year, i had only ever seen a single sphodros web. since july of this year, i've spotted four webs - plus i saw a male sphodros rufipes, and found piece of an exuvia outside of a...

that one seems quite long, i've usually only looked at scapes under a scope. i don't recall how widespread the structure is, but i know Araneus and Neoscona have em

agreed, looks like Pisaurina mirabilis

that's called the scape