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I think this is an Argyrodes Argyrodes, a Dewdrop Spider.
I found it a couple of inches away from a Cross Orbweaver, at the edge of its web.
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- Submitted: Aug 8, 2020
- Photographed: Aug 5, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
I want to dedicate this spider to Helper-Harvestman. Thank you for being so supportive to me, amico mio 🙂
Aww, thanks. You’re sweet. Your spider is fantastic, by the way! It looks like it’s covered in little mirrors.
Very cool shape and metallic looking. I like this guy.
Hey there! How’s life treating you? I miss chatting with you.
Not too roughly. I’m always there for a good chat, regardless of the (mis)treatment 🙂
Ah, well I’m glad to hear you’re hanging in there. Yeah, these days are not smooth like silk, or well-ordered like an orb-web. They more closely resemble the webs of the Theridiidae, the chaos and confusion of haphazard threads which seem to be thrown together without pattern or purpose. It’s up to us to make the most of the unexpected. Anyhow, I’m still keeping up with my spider-chasing, even though I’m not super active on SpiderID. I’ve got some good orb-weavers around, seen 3-4 Sergiolus (?) individuals, and I discovered where the harvestman goes when it rains. I’m also working… Read more »
No new finds here, but I’ve just come up with an old acquaintance while browsing my collection. Check out the latest submissions and you’ll see this strange-looking guy :D. You were talking about snowy winters, but the the town where I live (Meran/o) lies in an Alpine valley near the Austrian border, so I’m already surrounded by snow-clad mountain tops, although it’s early autumn 🙂
Wow, what a wonderfully odd-looking spider! I wasn’t familiar with this Episinus genus; now I see that there is a whole group of tiny cork-shaped spiders being mistaken for Tetragnathidae the world over. I love the multicolored legs – they’re highly fashionable. Thanks for sharing! How did I manage to forget the Alps? Brrrrr. Sounds like a beautiful place to live, though. I have no high mountains in my local area; the nearest are the dense Rocky Mountains to the east and the scattered but majestic Cascades to the west, each range a full thousand feet shorter (at maximum height)… Read more »
A Tetragnathidae, that’s exactly what I mistook it for when I first came across it! Can you read Italian or was it just one of your nice guesses 🙂 ? I like living in this place. I moved here about ten years go. I grew up in a Tuscan sea village, yet I don’t miss the sight of the sea, unlike most sea people I know that ended up settling down in a mountain valley. And I’m still wondering why.. Perhaps it’s because I have a mountain soul 😀 We’ve got an excellent transportation network here: a railway, a highway,… Read more »
Unfortunately, neither; my browser automatically offers to translate pages into English, and Google Translate is getting pretty good. Almost everything on the page translated neatly into perfect English. I miss the days when Google Translate could supply a good laugh with its questionable but hilarious direct translations.
I’m glad you don’t have a subway. It sounds like a very expensive and impractical mode of transportation in the mountains. ; – ) Cable ways – are those trams, suspended high above the ground? What a view they must offer!
Individual coyotes occasionally saunter through our property in broad daylight, hunting rodents. At night, we hear the pack rally for their group hunt. Their howling is not a long, mournful sound like a wolf. The sounds begin as howls but break off into yipping and barking. They always sound like they’re having a wild party. In the summer, I can pick out the high-pitched yaps of pups howling with the pack, perhaps for their first time.
I was born and raised only forty miles (as the crow flies) from the sea, but the winding roads and ranges of hills between us made it into an inconvenient hour-plus journey. I’m not a sea person either; I don’t mind being landlocked as long as I can see the sky. It’s good to love the place you live in. A fair number of mountain people have settled in my area from places like Montana, Colorado, and Utah. I’m not one of them. I just never feel comfortable driving through the mountains. My first home was a flat valley bounded by low hills, not mountains,… Read more »
Yes, the wolf debate rages here as well. I saw one once, trotting away, in a misty field along the highway. Bears are not that big of a controversy; Fish and Game does well managing them and keeping problem individuals away from populated areas. We have cougars; though I’ve never seen one, I know to stay out of the woods at night. Neighbors share fuzzy greyscale pictures from trail cams. Old-time locals tell of the big cats’ strange cry, a sound like an anguished human scream. There are white-tailed deer, raccoons, and porcupines which visit at various seasons. Tracking can… Read more »
I’m interested in learning more about this spider. Do you have any observations or resources to share on it?
Here is an essay that you might find interesting:
https://www2.gwu.edu/~spiders/content/publications/Whitehouse%20et%20al%202002.pdf