My new pet spider Sally πŸ•· πŸ•·

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Itsy bitsy spider

As per my recent posts, I've been opening up my awareness more to nature all around me. Where I'm living at the moment, there is flora and fauna in abundance and my family and I are very lucky to be surrounded by nature and all its treasures right now. I do realise however, that many of you reading this may be in an urban environment with less obvious nature to see and admire. With that in mind, I've choosen this little spider to post about and photograph.

The first thing you'll notice in the first set of photos is her rather rotund posterior! I'm no spider expert, but i believe Sally may be pregnant? I'm going to keep a good eye on her in the coming days and see if mysuspicions are correct.

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These photos were captured yesterday with my trusty Samsung smartphone. Here she is hauling in some of her captured little flies for her dinner, which is well earned. She is eating for a couple of hundred after all. That's no exaggeration either, as spiders typically lay between 2 and 1000 eggs.

Sun bathing

I checked in on her this morning and she is chilling out catching a few rays of sunshine and why shouldn't she! 😁

Some shots are focused so you can see the spider and others are focused so you can see the view.

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What will tomorrow bring? Rain most likely, as this is Ireland, but who knows. I certainly won't watch the weather though, I prefer to live in hope!

Thanks for reading

Peace Out

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Thanks for what u have thought us today about spider,the little I know about it is that, Spiders live in both temperate and tropical climates and can be found in a variety of wetlands, including bogs, swamps and marshes. They make their homes in a variety of biomes, including tundra, desert, chaparral, rainforests, mountains and forests.


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We appreciate your work and your post has been manually curated by zoology team (oscurity,nelinoeva) on behalf of Amazing Nature Community. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the photos, good shots for these spiders need a good macro lens! so thanks for the effort!

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Thanks a million, really appreciate it

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I am scared of spiders, but now that I saw this post I am not scared of them any more :))

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Ah really.... that's lovely to hear.

Spiders get a bad rap, similar to mice. Often they are harmless and are a lot more scared of you, who are usually around 100 times bigger than them! 😁

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Ah that's lovely to hear @ablaze. I am very happy to hear that. Thank you for your help and support. :))

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I hate to break it to you, but "Sally" here looks like a male. The bulbs on the ends of the palps are a dead giveaway. Male spiders are normally smaller than females, but not necessarily slimmer, especially if they are well-fed. I've seen spiders become visibly fatter after a large meal.

The lighting in these pictures is such that I can't positively identify the species, but it looks almost identical to the orb weavers that I usually have all over the outside of my house this time of year (they are strangely absent this season). Considering that we live on opposite sides of the pond, it is most likely a different species in the same genus (Araneus).

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Wow you know your spiders!!

At least I'm not foolishly waiting around for baby spiders now πŸ™ƒ Thanks

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