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I like spiders extremely much - can somebody relate? If so post your favorite species. If you own any spiders you can post them if you like (also other invertebrates).
My favorite spider in the moment is the Linothele (especially megatheloides/fallax) due to its looks and also because it builds funnel webs that give its enclosure an extremely appealing look.
Linothele megatheleoides. Anyone here enjoy a Dipluridae? : thedarkden (reddit.com)
My favorite spider in the moment is the Linothele (especially megatheloides/fallax) due to its looks and also because it builds funnel webs that give its enclosure an extremely appealing look.
Linothele megatheleoides. Anyone here enjoy a Dipluridae? : thedarkden (reddit.com)
But apart from that my absolute favorites are trap-door-spiders (especially liphistids due to being absolutely unique due to having a segmentation/spinnerets in the mid of their bodies/phylogenetically unique and the Cyclocosmia due to its unique plate on the opisthosoma and idiopodids/ctenizids).
Cyclocosmia Spider : MakeMeSuffer (reddit.com)
I also like sicariids (especially Hexophthalma/Sicarius) because of their ability to adjust to the soil in their surroundings by catching soil particles with their hair, because they have only six eyes, because they bury themselves quickly, jump out of the soil to catch their prey and because they have a very potent cytotoxic venom that makes you rot while you are alive while also being very peaceful and shitty climbers (although many people think that their toxicity is overestimated and the reports are very anectdotal). Sadly actual "tarantulas" are something I know very little about. Sadly I don't own any because of my living situation and other problems.
I also like (semi-)aquatic spiders like Ancylometes/Dolomedes because you can keep them in aesthetically pleasing enclosures with water/plants form their habitats, we have (semi-)aquatic pisaurids/lycosids where I live.
Then I also like atypids because they are the only mygalmorphs in my country - I especially like Calommata because of its beautiful orthognathous chelicerae. And the Atypus in my country build tubes where they live/catch their prey, when an animal walks over their tube they come and stab it with their chelicerae from the inside (people also used to cover their wounds in the silk of these animals due to the healing properties/probably antiseptic proteins of spider web).
I also enjoy them because of their unique way of catching prey - a bola spider for example uses a lasso with a drop in the end and uses pheromones to lure its prey in (on the day they are disguised as bird shit), a scytodid will shoot its victims with venomous strings from its chelicerae and will pin it down by doing so (some spitting spiders of bigger size like longipes are kept as pets in the moment and for example thoracica often lives in houses in my country), a deinopid will use its web as a landing net (and they also build their retina up and destroy them each day), etc.
I also like "social" spiders and animals that occur in my vicinity (like pholcids/dysderids). I also like eresiids because the mothers feed their offspring with their own vomit that consists out of their liquidized insides from mouth to mouth until they die (mouth-to-mouth feeding also occurs in some theridiids). Then I also like "dangerous" animals like funnel-web-spiders (we only have Macrothele cepediana in Europe sadly), Latrodectus/Black Widows, etc. - in my country the most venomous spiders are Argyroneta/Cheiracanthium, which you a) never meet and b) aren't even truly dangerous for humans. And also thomisids because they look like flowers and uloborids because they are non-venomous spiders and kill their prey with raw strength after immobilizing them in their cribellate webs. Basically my criteria for choosing spiders I like is a) behavior, b) looks, c) amount of rarity.
Cyclocosmia Spider : MakeMeSuffer (reddit.com)
I also like sicariids (especially Hexophthalma/Sicarius) because of their ability to adjust to the soil in their surroundings by catching soil particles with their hair, because they have only six eyes, because they bury themselves quickly, jump out of the soil to catch their prey and because they have a very potent cytotoxic venom that makes you rot while you are alive while also being very peaceful and shitty climbers (although many people think that their toxicity is overestimated and the reports are very anectdotal). Sadly actual "tarantulas" are something I know very little about. Sadly I don't own any because of my living situation and other problems.
I also like (semi-)aquatic spiders like Ancylometes/Dolomedes because you can keep them in aesthetically pleasing enclosures with water/plants form their habitats, we have (semi-)aquatic pisaurids/lycosids where I live.
Then I also like atypids because they are the only mygalmorphs in my country - I especially like Calommata because of its beautiful orthognathous chelicerae. And the Atypus in my country build tubes where they live/catch their prey, when an animal walks over their tube they come and stab it with their chelicerae from the inside (people also used to cover their wounds in the silk of these animals due to the healing properties/probably antiseptic proteins of spider web).
I also enjoy them because of their unique way of catching prey - a bola spider for example uses a lasso with a drop in the end and uses pheromones to lure its prey in (on the day they are disguised as bird shit), a scytodid will shoot its victims with venomous strings from its chelicerae and will pin it down by doing so (some spitting spiders of bigger size like longipes are kept as pets in the moment and for example thoracica often lives in houses in my country), a deinopid will use its web as a landing net (and they also build their retina up and destroy them each day), etc.
I also like "social" spiders and animals that occur in my vicinity (like pholcids/dysderids). I also like eresiids because the mothers feed their offspring with their own vomit that consists out of their liquidized insides from mouth to mouth until they die (mouth-to-mouth feeding also occurs in some theridiids). Then I also like "dangerous" animals like funnel-web-spiders (we only have Macrothele cepediana in Europe sadly), Latrodectus/Black Widows, etc. - in my country the most venomous spiders are Argyroneta/Cheiracanthium, which you a) never meet and b) aren't even truly dangerous for humans. And also thomisids because they look like flowers and uloborids because they are non-venomous spiders and kill their prey with raw strength after immobilizing them in their cribellate webs. Basically my criteria for choosing spiders I like is a) behavior, b) looks, c) amount of rarity.
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