User:Patrick Edwin Moran
I am interested in spiders. I am located at 36° N 80° W.
Genus Avicularia[edit]
Avicularia bicegoi
Todd Gearheart thinks it may be a hybrid of A. bicegoi with A. huriana
Same Avic, another view
Avicularia metallica (immature)
Avicularia metallica
Avicularia metallica (ventral view
Genus Brachypelma[edit]
Brachypelma smithi female
Genus Oxiopes[edit]
Male Oxyopes salticus
Genus Phidippus[edit]
Phidippus audax (1) 10 mm. Female. She keeps a watchful eye on the photographer.
Phidippus audax (2) Note "lifeline" that protects her from falling.
Phidippus audax (3) These spiders are capable of giving defensive bites.
Female Phidippus johnsani (?) 14 mm.
Large, slow moving, and attractive, some are bright red and may tempt children.
These spiders will give defensive bites.
Phidippus octopunctatis, perhaps the largest U.S. jumping spider.
This female is 16 mm. long. She is very slow moving.
Quite calm and unobtrusive, these spiders may give defensive bites.
Phidippus whitmani(?) Calm but active, she seems not to fear the photographer.
Phidippus workmani(?) 10 mm. She is shy and wary.
Phidippus workmani(?) facing the camera
Phidippus workmani(?) orienting cephalothorax upward toward camera
Phidippus mystaceus 12 mm. female
Genus Thiodina[edit]
Note the four eyes forming corners of a square and the central white spot
Note the /\ pattern at the back of the carapace
Note that underside of spider can be seen
Genus Paraphidippus[edit]
Paraphidippus aurantius
Paraphidippus aurantius
Genus Pisaurina[edit]
Pisaurina sp., mira or brevipes. Male, 17mm
Pisaurina mira
Pisaurina mira
Pisaurina mira
Pisaurina mira, female
Genus Platycryptus[edit]
Platycryptus undatus
Tangled Web Weavers[edit]
female, 2 mm. May be Enoplognatha ovata or some other member of the Theridiidae. Also may be a member of the Pholcidae family.
Side view also shows ventral aspect
head, seen from the front. Note eye pattern and prominent ridges near the eyes.
Ventral aspect. Note ivory-like area on the soma near the cephalothorax.
From the side, the area near the cephalothorax can been seen to protrude and come to a point.
Unfortunately this spider escaped, so not all identifying characteristics were photographed.
Anyphaenidae[edit]
dorsal view Family Anyphaenidae,possibly a Hibana sp.
ventral view Family Anyphaenidae,possibly a Hibana sp.
Sac spider (Aysha velox)
Male Aysha velox
Pholcidae[edit]
Spermophora[edit]
Hogna species[edit]
Hogna carolinensis, female, 25mm body length.
Other species[edit]
Araneus cingulatus, a species that builds its web in tree crowns. It is about 4 mm. long. This spider was collected in central North Carolina, USA.
Digitally enhanced image of a Sphodros rufipes that shows the nearly perfectly vertical orientation of the chelicerae, a prime characteristic of the Mygalomorphae.
Sphodros rufipes (Atypical tarantulas)
G. rosea, adult, female
Digitally modified photograph showing "chopsticks" orientation of the chelicerae of the Araneomorphae.
Agelenopsis sp.
Agelena labyrinthica
Leucauge venusta
Argiope aurantia, hanging down in its web
Argiope aurantia, three-quarters facing
Argiope aurantia, ventral view
Argiope aurantia, facing view
Frontinella pyramitela
Close-up of the preceding spider
Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)
Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)
Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)
Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)
Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Diagram of eyes.)
Arctosa sp. (resembles A. leopardus)
Same spider, different view.
From North Carolina, U.S.A.
Length is approx. 15 mm.
or about .75 inches
These pictures are of one female.
Hogna helluo
Hogna helluo, male
Hogna helluo, clearly showing the eye pattern typical of this genus.
Hogna frondicola
Rabidosa, rabida. Note two black front legs. Pedipalps are lighter than shown in this photograph.
Dolomedes scriptus
Pisaura mirabilis?
Platycryptus undatus exploring a human thumb
Platycryptus undatus 1
Platycryptus undatus 2
Platycryptus undatus 3
Paraphidippus aurantius
Paraphidippus aurantius
Huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) eating a cricket
The same spider is carrying an empty egg case.
Ventral aspect, showing epigynum and spinnerets.
Leucauge venusta
Theridion tepidariorum
Dorsal view 1 Note that the red dot is formed by this spider's spinerettes.
Dorsal view 2 The "trademark" hourglass figure is not visible.
Dorsal view 3 This spider has an egg sac about the size of her abdomen. It it not visible in this picture.
In this picture, the black widow's characteristic red hourglass is clearly visible.
This spider has caught an insect in her web, has wrapped it in silk, and will soon eat it.
Diagrams[edit]
Eye patterns (modified photographs)[edit]
Hogna species
Eye pattern of the orb weaving spiders.
Eye pattern of the Plocidae (from above).
Other[edit]
Cephalothorax of a typical wolf spider.
Body parts of the spider.
Eye pattern of the orb weaving spiders.
Eye pattern of the wolf spiders. 1. Egg sac, 2. Chelicerae, 3. Pedipalps
"Squared-off" cephalothorax of the jumping spiders.
Eye pattern of the jumping spiders.
Ventral diagram of the typical spider.
Eye pattern of the Tetragnathidae.
Digitally modified photograph showing "chopsticks" orientation of the chelicerae of the Araneomorphae.
Digitally enhanced image of a Sphodros rufipes that shows the nearly perfectly vertical orientation of the chelicerae typical of the Mygalomorphae.
The fang portion folds back into the chelicera as the blade of a pocket knife folds back into its handle.
Cut-away drawing of the cephalothorax and chelicerae, with venom glands and surrounding muscles.
Drawing showing how the "fang" portion of the chelicera articulates with the main part of the chelicera, and how the latter articulates with the cephalothorax.
There is nothing very tricky here.
Tetragnatha eye pattern
Physics[edit]
John Cramer's ansible
single and double split photo
Beam split and fuse
Wheeler experiment problems
Wheeler analog split and fuse
Inter-galactic Wheeler
multi telescope status one
multi telescope status two
backtrack Young maxima
Kim et al. quantum eraser
Kim with polarizations indicated
double split apparatus with two
double split apparatus with three
Approximately 1 inch black post to black post
Cramer ansible
Brian Greene, Fabric of the Cosmos, starting p. 107
Dribble over Strait
Modified Cramer Retrocausal schematic
12 lü and 5 scales
Other creatures[edit]
Black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta) eating a rodent.
Skritz, whose parents were allegedly a German Shepherd and a Yellow Labrador Retriever.
mystery tarantula 36∘11‘ 44,20 N 80∘11' 49,76 W
Outside acquisitions[edit]
Thiania bhamoensis, used for spider fighting in Singapore
New[edit]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_5-die_pattern.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_aft_end_cephalothorax.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_venter.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_Top-down_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_Top-down_1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_head-on.jpg
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