Crassicrus lamanai
Portrait of a Belize cinnamon tarantula, a species and genus endemic to Belize. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
Belizean Cinnamon Tarantula. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
Missulena bradleyi
Portrait of an eastern mouse spider. Laboratory animal at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Hadronyche valida
A female funnel-web spider exudes venom in a threat display. This animal is used for studies of venom chemistry at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
A female funnel-web spider exudes venom in a threat display. This animal is being used for studies of venom chemistry at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
Atrax robustus
Sydney funnel-web spider in defensive posture. Laboratory animal at James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Portrait of a male Sydney funnel-web spider. Laboratory animal at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
A male Sydney funnel-web spider in threat display. Laboratory Animal at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
A male Sydney funnel-web spider exudes a droplet of venom. This species is one of very few spiders with a potentially dangerous bite. Laboratory animal at James Cook University in Cairns, Queenland, Australia.
Venom researcher David Wilson collects a droplet from a male funnel-web spider at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
Hemicloea
A Camponotus ant falls prey to a Hemicloea flat bark spider in the Australian mallee. Poochera, South Australia
Hygropoda dolomedes
Hygropoda dolomedes is a tropical relative of fishing spiders. It constructs webs on the top side of leaves. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Trechaleidae
A wandering spider pauses on a banana leaf. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Cupiennius
Focus-stacked portrait of a wandering spider. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Ctenidae - wandering spider
Wandering spiders (Ctenidae) are recognized by their four roughly equal-sized eyes arranged in a square. Refugio Amazonas, Tambopata, Peru.
Hersiliidae
A two-tailed spider (Hersiliidae) feeds on silk-wrapped prey. Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia
A two-tailed spider (Hersiliidae) rests on a tree trunk in an urban forest fragment. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Hygropoda dolomedes showing the fang-bearing chelicerae that define the Chelicerata, a taxonomic group including arachnids and horseshoe crabs. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
An Australian spider protects her egg sac from an overzealous photographer. Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Pisaurina mira
Male nursery web spider. Canandaigua, NY, USA.
