Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: spider

A yellow and red-striped goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia, Araignée crabe) with its meal. She was hiding, well camouflaged, beneath the petals of a black eyed Susan. It was obviously a very clean strike, between the head and the thorax, and probably happened so fast the fly would not have a seen it coming.

A black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia).

A small spider (probably Enoplognatha ovata) captures her dinner.

She's got her eyes on you. A Phidippus audax jumping spider.

A shamrock spider

Yellow and black Argiope aurantia . The webs are hung in long grass or low vegetation where at this time of year they capture a lot of grasshoppers.

Yellow, silver and black striped Argiope trifasciata spider.- This spider and the photo next to it were found in webs that had been hung side by side in long grass.

A black and yellow argiope spider hiding in the long grass.

A black and yellow argiope spider. The zig-zag ornamentation on the web is very characteristic.

This is a pumpkin spider against the sun. (Sometimes it is also called a shamrock spider).

This is a spider called Uloborus, or the feather legged spider (only the female has the feathery front legs). Uloborus are unique among spiders as they have no venom glands and cannot poison their prey, which they kill by wrapping in silk and crushing. These are 'cribellate' or hackled orb spiders- the silk of the web is pulled out over a special organ called a calamistrum which makes the silk “wooly”. Insects become stuck on the fine wooly fibres rather than on glue globs that are found on most webs.

This is a spider called Uloborus, or the feather legged spider (only the female has the feathery front legs). Uloborus are unique among spiders as they have no venom glands and cannot poison their prey, which they kill by wrapping in silk and crushing.

A tiny dwarf spider on grass

A marbled spider, Araneus marmoreus, seen in Parc St Bruno close to Montreal