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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hahaha oh he kinda does! Yeah he's so adorable and sat pretty still for his photo session! 😄

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hi Marshal! I found him at Strawberry Creek on Berkeley's campus!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I did my daily 20 min spider search and ran across this guy! Phanias species have stunning faces and remind me of skeletons. He was beautiful and perfect for practicing macrophotography. Thanks little dude! #Spiders #Bugsky #SciComm #Inverts #Macro

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's a wonderful and complicated question, but essentially making the area as hospitable for them as possible and providing plenty of food sources is your best bet!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hello! Not using pesticides, planting native plants that attract insects that spiders might eat, and providing rocks, logs, leaf litter, lots of foliage, and other shelters for spiders to inhabit are all very important! Also providing a bit of moisture is helpful as well!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Beautiful molt! Green bottle blue tarantula. Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My little alien molted successfully! I was super worried about her molting while I was in Crete, but she waited until right after I got back. I'll post another photo after she flips over and stretches out. Congrats Aurora! Green bottle blue tarantula #spider #transformation #bugsky #alien #inverts

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hello! Glad you like it! And the eyes closest to their principle eyes also help them judge distance. So the different eyes have different functions which is super cool!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A few months ago, KQED did a segment on my regal jumpers. I loved wrangling the spiders and helping put the pieces together. They'll be releasing videos gradually, but the first one just came out! It's both gnarly and cute, so feel free to watch!♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=soBe... #SciComm #Bugsky

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This Jumping Spider Trains Itself to Kill | Deep Look

YouTube video by Deep Look

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Hello everyone! I got busy for a while but I'm back and had some adventures! I took a course in Crete and met some amazing spiders along the way, including this handsome fella. Europhrys herbigrada. These guys were everywhere! #Greece #Spiders #Cute #Inverts #Adventure

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Lost leg but not heart♥️! Practicing macro again. Found this one outside. I like this picture because you can see where the spider lost/autotomized its leg. Spiders can release their legs and regrow them when molting. Cool to see it up close. #Spiders #Science #SciComm #Bugsky #Macro #Survivor

Photo of a jumping spider that lost/autotomized its leg between the coxa and trochanter segments. You can see the dark brown stump where the leg was lost right next to the pedipalp. Spiders can release their legs when in danger and regrow them during molting. (Many spiders stop molting after reaching adulthood and are therefore unable to regrow their legs). The muscles constrict and pull on the articular membrane where the leg detached, reducing blood loss until the blood clots and a brown plate forms over the site.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Yeah the tiny head is pretty cute. Team spider all the way, but they are both adorable!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Chonky cyclops is such a great description!!!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Same momma from two days ago. Looking much better. More active. She got spooked and jumped off the table. I'm glad she felt safe down there but I think she missed her goal of getting away from the "scary human." 😅 #spider #bugsky #Inverts #surprise #cute

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Reposting in case anyone else wants to chime in before I present the results to my lab! 😄

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thanks! I'm so grateful to have it! Definitely one of my favorite gifts ever received. 😁

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

She's done it again! Thank you Kathy Nagel for the bracelet! She let me pick the species too. I love it! #Spiders #Jewelry ##SciComm #SciArt #Bugsky #Beautiful

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thank you! I was getting worried about her so I'm super excited for her! 😁

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When you've been guarding babies for so long and it's finally time to eat! This lady has refused to eat because of her eggs. But the babies hatched and she's finally ready! Look at her shriveled abdomen. Enjoy your food momma. You deserve it! #spider #bugsky #inverts #ecology #scicomm #lunch

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day from Phidippus princeps pulcherrimus! Love her little heart! ♥️ #Spiders #ValentinesDay #Inverts #Beauty #Bugsky #Heart

Phidippus princeps pulcherrimus
Photo taken by Edwin (Shiyang) Wu

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Male Phidippus otiosus (Canopy Jumping Spider) chilling on a branch in Florida. I love seeing their colors against the forest background. They were often above my head, but this guy wasn't too high! #Spider #Ecology #Fieldwork #Inverts #Bugsky #SciComm

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I think team fly might actually be winning!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hello! Thank you so much! This absolutely made my day! I'll do my best to be a bright beacon! 😁

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is true! The cartoony shape is getting to me. I keep coming back to look at it and smiling. I respect your opinion for sure! 😁

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Okay so, new thoughts. Front view, not as cute! Spider definitely wins. Side and back view, adorable. The spider has competition for sure.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

You are so right that it looks like a plush toy! I'm not into flies at all, but I feel the urge to squeeze it!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That's true! It makes me sad but it's also so interesting!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Woah! Hot take! Option number 3 has emerged!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Haha I mean I work in a spider lab. So the biases are definitely present in this post lol. I do think this is one of the cutest parasites I've encountered though.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That's fair. I think the chunky body is what makes it cute for me, but I'll see if I can find a front on photo of the fly.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Even though I am team spider, I do think the fly is kind of awesome 😅. I see the appeal. My labmate who caught the spider is absolutely team fly.

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh my goodness I love this! The idea of a spider knitting is so precious. When they stop producing silk, sometimes we give them silk from a younger spider to sit on so they can grip their enclosures better. 😊

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Cute! You have a beautiful tarantula! I have several as well and I enjoy watching them clean their legs!

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So, a lab member caught a jumping spider. Adorable. Then, we realized the spider had been parasitized. Spider dies and we get this chunky fly. So, as scientists, we ask the obvious question... Which is cuter, host or parasite? My lab is split. I am team spider!!! #Spider #Ecology #Bugsky #Lablife

Life cycle of a hunchback fly that parasitizes spiders.
Credit: Thomas Cassar

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

No coffee for you! I was rehousing this spider and she ran up the side of my cup and gave me this look. I almost gave in. Jumping spiders are so expressive. #spider #coffee #cute #inverts #lablife

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Trinity Walls @feelinginspidered.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Xystocheir dissecta. Flat-backed millipede. Believed to glow under UV light to warn predators of their toxicity.

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