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It appears that we have someone similar to Latrodectus Geometricus in northern Thailand. I have just delivered a specimen to the local university for identification.
My initial examination of the specimen indicated that it is identical to the geometricus I studied in Northern California.
I am not feeling all that optomistic of the quality of the supposed identifiers however. A professor glanced at the specimen and pronounced it to be a 'wood spider'. The common 'wood spider' here is in the Lycosidae family and obviously a first grader could have given a better report. The next genius I encountered carefully wrote down that my specimen was in the aranae family and the class known as arachnidia. I hope I can expect a little better from whoever actually examines the specimen.
On other news I have spotted several lovely argiopes lately. Non that noteworthy but a delight to see them here. We have also had several lynx spiders around our home which is a little sad as I have imported dozens of salticidae and the poor lynx falls very easy prey to them.
Perhaps the best news of all is my having converted my wife to arachnophilia. She has readily accepted turning our bathroom into a therididae sanctuary and avidly reports the ongoing romances, newcomers, expectant mothers, and keeps track of the dispersal of the newborns. Our therididae are of the extreme long legged variety with relatively tiny bodies. The males are often as large as the females and commonly cohabitate the webs for some time before and after mating.
My initial examination of the specimen indicated that it is identical to the geometricus I studied in Northern California.
I am not feeling all that optomistic of the quality of the supposed identifiers however. A professor glanced at the specimen and pronounced it to be a 'wood spider'. The common 'wood spider' here is in the Lycosidae family and obviously a first grader could have given a better report. The next genius I encountered carefully wrote down that my specimen was in the aranae family and the class known as arachnidia. I hope I can expect a little better from whoever actually examines the specimen.
On other news I have spotted several lovely argiopes lately. Non that noteworthy but a delight to see them here. We have also had several lynx spiders around our home which is a little sad as I have imported dozens of salticidae and the poor lynx falls very easy prey to them.
Perhaps the best news of all is my having converted my wife to arachnophilia. She has readily accepted turning our bathroom into a therididae sanctuary and avidly reports the ongoing romances, newcomers, expectant mothers, and keeps track of the dispersal of the newborns. Our therididae are of the extreme long legged variety with relatively tiny bodies. The males are often as large as the females and commonly cohabitate the webs for some time before and after mating.
