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Smaller than a wolf spider with babies I came across on the same wall of the outside ofy house last year but I think this is one too as I believe they are the only ones to carry their young like this. Mom is also eating something but I couldn't tell what. This pic will be for fun as the flash on the eyes of mom and babies appear as little lights.
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- Submitted: Jul 6, 2020
- Photographed: Jul 6, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Samples, Virginia, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Great eyeshine! I love the sparkles.
I wish we could upload the live pics from I phone. When Mom moved they looked like they were blinking lights. Thanks for the comment!
Oh, wow. I’ve never heard of this ‘live pics’ idea, but it seems reasonable. Like a GIF? I’ve seen moths with pretty bright eyeshine, but I haven’t seen a lot of spiders with it. Someone on here was advising looking around the bases of trees with a flashlight at night to find fishing spiders. A friend of mine keeps a trail camera with infrared lights and occasionally catches wildlife on it. The deer eyes show up as dimly glowing orbs, but the coyotes look like they have flashlight eyes. That combined with their eager, pointy ears and habit of popping… Read more »
Exactly like a GIF. The iPjone takes a live pic and when you goes it you just hold your finger on it and it plays for the like three seconds it took to take the picture.
It would also be good for other pics I have had with face close ups of spiders with prey and you see their fangs and all at work.
I love trail cams and watching the animals!
Oh, nice. That’s a pretty cool feature.
Yeah, we’ve seen coyotes, rabbits, white-tailed deer, moose, foxes, raccoons, domestic cats, and even a badger. No bears, wolves, or cougars, but the neighbors report seeing those. I’m in Idaho. What kind of wildlife do you see in Virginia?
No cool stuff like moose, badgers, wolves or cougars. In my yard in the evenings back along the woodline I have seen white tail deer, raccoons, oppossums, skunks, wild turkeys, foxes and any time of day ferel cats that somehow know to find my house. My son says it has something to do with the fact that I feed them….. I dunno …. Maybe. And of course we always have squirrels, rabbits and chipmunks running about. There are coyotes.but I have only seen one and while we have bears they usually don’t come this far away from the mountains. Oh… Read more »
Nice. We had quite the rabbit population a few years back – until a family of Great Horned Owls came and decimated them. We didn’t mind. They’ll cycle back and then we’ll get owls again. Snowshoe hares are an occasional sighting, mostly from tracks in the wintertime. We are supposedly on the edge of the lynx’s geographic range, but we are on the border between farmland and maintained (periodically logged) forest, so we don’t see old-growth-forest animals here. Up by Coeur d’Alene, I saw a Great Grey Owl once, which is cool. I understand they follow the snowline, being primarily… Read more »
We do not have ground squirrels, or badgers or woodchucks that I have seen. Just regular gray squirrels, chipmunks, beaver, muskrat and field mice. The opossum babies are the cutest clutching to their mother’s back as she carries them around with her. They are not the cutest animal overall but they have their moments. We have both gray and red fox. We have only recently starting seeing coyotes but if we had more they would be well nourished with the feral cat population. I have had, at the same time, in my back yard, a red fox, opossum, raccoons and… Read more »
Oh, nice. Yes, babies are always cute. Wow. I guess that food’s a prize worth interspecies cooperation! Does your area have a trap-neuter-return program for the cats? I understand that some places maintain their feral cats that way – getting them neutered, keeping them fed, and trapping them now and then for vaccinations and veterinary care. Our cat came from such a colony as a kitten and was rehabilitated by a rescue specializing in feral-born kittens. She’s grown up to be a good cat, no aggression, just skittish. Some places, it’s possible to obtain neutered adult feral cats as mousers… Read more »