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Unfortunately, this Nosferatu spider (Zoropsis spinimana) will have to figure out how to survive outdoors now 🤷‍♂️ It crawled out of a cardboard box that had been in the house when it was cut apart for recycling. Originally from the Mediterranean, these spiders prefer warmer indoor temperatures, but my wife is not very understanding 😬✌️ #Heidelberg 🏰 #Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ #BugOfTheDay 🐞 #MacroPhotography 🔬 #ArachnidsOfMastodon 🕷️ #BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally, a rather shonky macro stack of a small goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia; 🇩🇪 Veränderliche Krabbenspinne) with large ambition and a large appetite. It seems to have captured a hoverfly of some kind, a scene replicated all over the garden, as we have many predatory crab spiders about. #Heidelberg 🏰 #Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ #BugOfTheDay 🐞 #MacroPhotography 🔬 #ArachnidsOfMastodon 🕷️ #BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Well, I didn't have that on my May Day bingo card – a predatory jumping spider impersonating a noble worker ant 😱 This is likely Leptorchestes berolinensis (🇩🇪 Großer Ameisenspringer), & from its shape & the way it was running up & down the rose leaves, I was sure it was a large ant. Then I downloaded the photos & counted the legs 😳 #Heidelberg 🏰 #Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ #BugOfTheDay 🐞 #MacroPhotography 🔬 #ArachnidsOfMastodon 🕷️ #BackGardenEntomology 🪲