Husband came up to me and told me (proudly) that he had relocated a jumping spider that was crawling up his arm onto one of my houseplants (Rhaphidophora tetrasperma). I love this man with all my heart 🥹❤️ The spider appears to be a male marpissa muscosa. #SpiderSky #Spiders #Inverts 🪴🕷️🪲

Preping for exams and working on other things. However, here are some neat creatures I encountered! #BugSky #Inverts #Bugs #TouchingGrass

This reminds me of the saying: "I ha di zum frässe gärn!" (swiss) Which roughly translates to: "I love you so much that I could eat you!" and is often used to express profound love. On second thought, it is indeed a very odd thing to say...

Alocasia maharani 'Albo' has blessed me with a new leaf (with not so much "Albo"). Nontheless, I absolutely love this plant. First corm harvested 💚 #Alocasia #Houseplants #plants #AlocasiaMaharani #VariegatedAlocasia

Such charming little things. Hypositticus pubescens. Trying to complete cutting and re-stacking the wood stack before the sceptic tank thing happens. Hard hot work - lots of long breaks including to photograph spiders.

Last nights Ero aphana found crawling up the wall. See a lot of these. Long long palps.

Those red pedipalps are insanely fabulous!

I know that jumping spiders are more popular amongst the public. But there is just something about wolf spider faces that make them so precious!

From the garden - Trachyzelotes pedestris, on the wall of the house. Tried an epigyne shot through the glass tube as she was quite still - I think you can make out the V shape but got too close with the camera.

When I tell you, this gentleman didn't want his picture taken! A male crab spider "Misumena vatia" trying to hide in (what I assume to be) Medicago sativa. #SpiderSky #Inverts #CrabSpider #spiders #CreepyCrawlies 🌿🕷️

Male Callobius spider with first leg vibrational courtship on a female Callobius web

Two specialist ant hunting spiders Anagena phalerata and the rare Moon Spider Callilepis nocturna around Prawle, Devon this week

A few days ago I was waiting by the door for the husband to come up the stairs. Whilst leaning with my head agsinst the door, something tickled my ear... Assumed Cheiracanthium sp. (possibly C. mildei), now safely removed from the door. #SpiderSky #Spiders #TickleMonster #inverts 🌿🪲🖤

Eeek, spiders 7 and 8 (having too much fun looking for them to post daily clearly). Uloborus plumipes a 'garden centre' spider import and the ever formidable looking Dolomedes frimbriatus- raft spider. Both in Norfolk. #SpiderADayForMay

I just have to share this picture of a glorious crane fly that I came across the other day. I mean, I know they get big. But this one was massive! #BugSky #CraneFly #Flies #Bugs #Inverts #LookAtThisCoolBugIFound

If I am not mistaken: A Melolontha melolontha (common cockchafer) taking a nap on a ligustrum branch. #inverts #bugs #maybug #cockchafer 🌿🪲

If I am not mistaken: A Melolontha melolontha (common cockchafer) taking a nap on a ligustrum branch. #inverts #bugs #maybug #cockchafer 🌿🪲

Spotted this adult female Ero aphana in Barry. A nationally scarce spider and appears to be the third record for VC41 Glamorgan. The other two I have managed to find were in Penarth. @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk @cofnod.org.uk @tylanberry.bsky.social

My husband, entering the apartment after taking Alice for a walk: "One of your spider friends sits on the wall next to our door if you want to say hi." #SpiderSky #Spiders #Inverts Here, the spider friend in question (my guess - Zoropsis spinimana, subadult):

Clear your mind for moment and understand this. We are altering the very #climate of the planet in a way that's dangerous for our own survival and the stability of our ecosystems. With only a few exceptions, our politicians are not only looking the other way but actively making the problem worse.

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

My Brassia orchid (hybrid) has blessed me by opening her first flower 😭❤️ #houseplants #bloomscrolling #flower #orchid #brassia

The prettiest little flower bud you're going to see today. Agalenatea redii, marvelously camouflaged on top of a (dry) plant. #SpiderSky #inverts #spiders #nature 🕷️🌿

A (what I assume to be juvenile) Larinioides sp. resting on a wall. This spider is likely looking for a place to build its magnificent orb web. Usually found near windows around my area. #SpiderSky #inverts #spiders #orbweaver 🕷️🌿

Today, I present to you a Larinioides sp. (breakfast included). #SpiderSky #inverts #Spiders 🌿🕷️

Current events also make me want to bury myself neck deep in a flower. I think this is a Tropinota hirta (correct me if I'm wrong) that I got to see today. #Beetle #Flower #Inverts #Bugs

A grey heron that my husband and I saw today. Never have I/we gotten this close to one of them without it taking flight. Mind you, I am standing on a small road (not trying to invade its personal space). Getting this video is sort of a 'happy accident'. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds #Nature #GreyHeron

Visited the spot again today. I wanted to get a better look at the assumed mate. Now I can confirm: It is a male of the species (Agalenatea redii). He sits in the same spot, while she has moved to a different branch on the same plant. #SpiderSky #inverts #orbweaver #spiders 🌿🕷️

Because of climate change caused by burning shittons of fossil fuels.

Speaking of Agalenatea redii: I just encountered one today (and what looks like a potential mate right above?) This has to be one of my favourite orb weavers too! #spiders #SpiderSky #inverts

Encountered a Pardosa wagleri today with a dark spot on its abdomen. It appears that the hair is missing there... #SpiderSky #Spiders #WolfSpiders #inverts

This goes to show that plants adapt to their environment. Here, Philodendron atabapoense. The plant on the right is 𝙖 𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the left one. Why is the left one so tiny? Because I forgot of its existence 😅 Provided some (emotional) support sticks. Updates will follow. #houseplants #plants

The world is a lot right now. But, to my delight, I managed to encounter someone new the other day! Excuse the low quality, the spider was very tiny and wouldn't hold still. The pictures are zoomed in too. It appeared to be an ant mimicking spider (but unsure). #SpiderSky #inverts #spiders 🌿🪲🕷️

I present to you: The second leaf of my Alocasia reginae 'Elaine' has emerged ✨ This got to be one of the more difficult Alocasia species I spend my days with. Very exited to see her grow. #Alocasia #AlocasiaReginae #houseplant #CormGrown

Nothing to see here, just a little guy coming through. #bugs #inverts #beetle 🪲✨

Very proud to announce that the corms my Alocasia azlanii has produced are healthy and growing! Here is the mother plant next to a 'baby' (including the absolutely stunning purple colour of the mother plant 😍) #Alocasia #AlocasiaCorm #Houseplants #AlocasiaAzlanii

The weather has been nice enough for some Pardosa sp. to come out and sunbathe ☀️ #SpiderSky #inverts #spiders

War is terrible for people, and terrible for the environment 🌍, which is, in turn, also terrible for people. (Not that the rich and powerful give a rip.) See also: www.forbes.com/sites/nilsro...

What I witnessed here, I think, was an attempt of a Lycosidae (most likely Pardosa sp.) to balloon? Anyone willing to confirm? *Ballooning refers to a type of locomotion where a spider takes flight. #SpiderSky #inverts #spiders #WolfSpiders

Hobbies of Nuctenea umbratica also include cave diving. All jokes aside, here, have a spider (cave diving stance included). #SpiderSky #inverts

Taking walks in nature is a blessing in it itself. But noticing my eight-legged friends emerging really brightens my day. Here, a zebra jumping spider (likely Salticus scenicus, judging by size, time, pattern and environment encountered). #SpiderSky #inverts #JumpingSpiders

#BirdsSeenIn2026 A visitor to my not-so-fancy bird feeder (it's just a clay pot tray with some bird food in it). I believe they enjoy the additional food source.

She's flowering! Usually, I cut the inflorescence since resources are spent developing flowers instead of upkeeping the leaves. However, I'm really curious to see how it turns out 👀 #houseplant #alocasia

Still one of my favourite pictures of an orb-weaver (Larinioides sp.) that just wanted to stay in our apartment to keep warm. #inverts #SpiderSky #orbweaver

Look who I found crawling about: Larinioides sclopetarius. A truly wonderful orb-weaving spider. 📍 Switzerland (03.01.2026) 🗝️ araneae.nmbe.ch #spider #SpiderSky #arachnids #inverts #orbweaver 🕷️🌿

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

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Can't believe I have to say this but climate change is responsible for extreme cold snaps.