Many Neotropical and Nearctic tarantulas defend themselves by releasing urticating bristles into the air around them when threatened by a potential predator. The hairs are barbed and contain an irritating […]
Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2012. Cyclosa spiders are in the Araneidae family and are orb-web weavers. They build a stabilimentum with debris (often old […]
Photo by Kevin Zansler, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2012. Giant crab spiders belong to Family Sparassidae. We are informed by Stuart Longhorn that the spider in this photo […]
Photo by Bob Thomas, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2010. Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb, Belize, May 2012. Female wolf spiders carry their cocoon using their spinnerets. Once the spiderlings emerge, […]
Photo by Bob Thomas, taken at Chiquibul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Belize, May 2012. Spider on the right on the web (a little over exposed) with brown egg case hanging […]
Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Asa Wright Nature Center, Trinidad, November 2009. If you look very carefully just to the right of the rear leg viewed here to the upper left, […]
Photo by Aimée Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2011. Photo by Shannon Fortenberry, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize, May 2010. Photo by Aimée Thomas, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, […]
Photo by Bob Thomas Photo by Jenny Lamb, May 2010. Most naturalists know the pisaurid fishing spiders of the genus Dolomedes. Ancylometes are a larger type of fishing spider, and is […]
Tropical Natural History 