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I would love to know what this spider is, i got a lot of nice photos and videos of him, i tried a reverse image search but that almost never works for these types of things, he is very small, i have one picture of him standing on the shaft of a Q-Tip. I thought it was an ant in the sink at first. When touched he curled up into a defensive ball. Looks to have large mandibles (relative to body size)
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- Submitted: Jan 31, 2023
- Photographed: Jan 31, 2023
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Narragansett , Rhode Island, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
The catch is that he’s male. Most spider photos are of females, reducing reference photos. The things that look like insect mandibles are his pedipalps. Palps are kinda the spider version of antennae. Chelacerae are the spider version of mandibles. Pedipalps are multi-tool appendages that move, can help grasp, have many sensory abilities, and are often referred to as the male spiders’ “sex organs.” It’s more complex. . Male spiders deposit semen onto their webbing. The palps can draw up the liquid like eye droppers. They bulge because they males carry around the semen while they search for females. This… Read more »
Wow thats absolutely fascinating. Thank you. I have a lot of really good pics considering I took them with my phone, i wish i had the option to post more than one photo here