Categories: Arachnids

• Western Spotted Orb Weaver

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  THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!

  NOTE: Do NOT click on the link above for the desktop if you are arachnophobic. I love spiders and it still gives me the willies. Fair warning: fangs are visible.

  We interrupt our regularl…

• Spider Wasp

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  Spider wasp!

  Antelope Island is absolutely heaving with spiders. Seriously, in some parts there are a hundred spiders in an area the size of a car. And they’re not tiny, they’re huge garden spiders. It’s positively amaz…

• Gray Damselfly

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  I love damselflies. They’re less skittish than dragonflies, and often consent to being photographed quite intrusively. I mean really intrusively. Here’s a closeup from the desktop version: