Sweet and Spicy Spoods

05/31/2026

24 hours post molt-Acanthoscurria geniculata (Brazilian white knee). Second molt with me. 🥹🥹

05/31/2026

You walked through a web this morning and wiped it off your face without looking at what built it. The web already told you.

An organized circle stretched between two branches — orb weaver. She rebuilt the whole thing last night after eating the old one. Same architecture, same anchor points, from memory.

A messy tangle in the corner of the garage — cobweb spider. Looks like a mistake. Catches more insects than any other web type in the house.

A funnel disappearing into the grass — grass spider. She sits inside the narrow end and waits for vibration. You've seen these covered in dew at dawn and never realized something was watching from inside.

🌿 The one that got me: two of the six spiders on this chart don't build webs at all. The jumping spider stalks prey on walls and plants — she's the small one that turns to face you when you get close. The crab spider hides inside a flower, camouflaged to match the petals, and grabs bees and butterflies that land.

The sheet webs in the grass. The cobwebs in the garage. The orb in the garden. Every one of them is catching hundreds of insects a week.

The shape of the web names the spider. Every time 🐾

05/30/2026

Clutch #3 hasn't even left the nest yet and she's already sitting on #4!!

Oh my Elsa girl, you are such a good mama. 🥰

05/28/2026

05/27/2026

😆🤦‍♀️ not sure what he is upset about. I happened to walk by and see this.

05/27/2026

I love finding jumpers in nature

05/27/2026

Check out that camouflage

05/27/2026

Carabena versicolor 24 hours post molt. My girl was super thirsty, then proceeded with her spider yoga.

05/27/2026

Sweet Cinnamon girl. She is from Clover's first clutch...the first clutch in ever raised. She hatches September 2023 and is showing her age, but is still sweet as can be.