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Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
Depending on scale it looks like it could be a car crusher. Cool, machinez.
Soon as those tables are empty in about ten days I am supposed to set up a "Thinning The Herd" sale on my gear. I couldn't grow any more arms, really can't justify them all.
Mean Mr. Mustard
Always shouts out something obscene
your soups gonna burn if you cook it that way
I thought it was a record player.
Might have to go a number up on my reading glasses.
Might have to go a number up on my reading glasses.
if I was healthy, I’d be begging you to sell that Thunderbird. You still have the five string TBird?
learning time with creepy aunt august: quick tips for determining the sex of a spider
I found this little Agelenopsis sp. buddy today - a grass spider. they're a member of the Agelenidae family, the funnel weavers, but they're not medically significant - people get confused because there is the "Australian funnel web spider" which is actually a whole family (Atracidae), some of whom ARE considered medically significant, but they're completely different. the Atracidae are in an entirely different infraorder (Mygalomorphae) along with tarantulas and trapdoor spiders.
ANYWAY.
when you look at a spider's face, you'll usually see two chelicerae dead center - they get called the "fangs" sometimes, but the fangs are actually down at the end of the chelicerae. moving outward, the next bit you'll find are pedipalps - they look like short legs, and they essentially are, but they're not for walking, they're mostly for sensing, & they can function a bit like arms/hands as well.
sexually mature male spiders get special little bulbs on the tips of their pedipalps, sometimes called palpal bulbs. they are essentially jizz mittens - when the spiders do a little fuck, the male will use these jizz mittens to slip a little package of spiderjizz into the female's epigyne (spussy).
so, one quick way to identify a spider as a male is the presence of his stupid little jizz mittens (sometimes people call them boxing gloves). the absence of them does not alone identify a spider as a female, as it could be a male that is not yet sexually mature, but their presence does confirm a spider as a male. there can be other ways to determine sex - some spiders have super obvious sexual dimorphism to where males and females have very different appearances. sometimes you can tell a female because they often have big dummy thicc butts. but even in species where males and females all kinda look the same, only males have jizz mittens.
I've included two pictures here - the first is a dorsal view, looking down at the top of the spider - that helps you see the shape of the spider (the two extra long spinnerets are a hallmark of the grass spider). the frontal view gives you a good look at the jizz mittens. I've included them under the spoiler below.
I found this little Agelenopsis sp. buddy today - a grass spider. they're a member of the Agelenidae family, the funnel weavers, but they're not medically significant - people get confused because there is the "Australian funnel web spider" which is actually a whole family (Atracidae), some of whom ARE considered medically significant, but they're completely different. the Atracidae are in an entirely different infraorder (Mygalomorphae) along with tarantulas and trapdoor spiders.
ANYWAY.
when you look at a spider's face, you'll usually see two chelicerae dead center - they get called the "fangs" sometimes, but the fangs are actually down at the end of the chelicerae. moving outward, the next bit you'll find are pedipalps - they look like short legs, and they essentially are, but they're not for walking, they're mostly for sensing, & they can function a bit like arms/hands as well.
sexually mature male spiders get special little bulbs on the tips of their pedipalps, sometimes called palpal bulbs. they are essentially jizz mittens - when the spiders do a little fuck, the male will use these jizz mittens to slip a little package of spiderjizz into the female's epigyne (spussy).
so, one quick way to identify a spider as a male is the presence of his stupid little jizz mittens (sometimes people call them boxing gloves). the absence of them does not alone identify a spider as a female, as it could be a male that is not yet sexually mature, but their presence does confirm a spider as a male. there can be other ways to determine sex - some spiders have super obvious sexual dimorphism to where males and females have very different appearances. sometimes you can tell a female because they often have big dummy thicc butts. but even in species where males and females all kinda look the same, only males have jizz mittens.
I've included two pictures here - the first is a dorsal view, looking down at the top of the spider - that helps you see the shape of the spider (the two extra long spinnerets are a hallmark of the grass spider). the frontal view gives you a good look at the jizz mittens. I've included them under the spoiler below.
I find this pretty cool. Never knew about the jizz mittens. Seems like not much fun at least for him but it beats getting eaten I suppose.
Was actually trying to get a pic of one I was gonna post here and ask you about but the flash just washed everything out and he hasn't been there when I've been back there while the sun was out. Will try for a better pic and post if I have any success. Might turn the camera flash off and just hold a flashlight on him/her or something.
Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
I usually just ask them where they want to go for dinner.
I was just replying to your other one to guess some type of orb weaver as they often come out at dusk. I can't say for sure, but I'd guess some type of Neoscona sp. orb weaver!
here's a link to an example of a common Neoscona sp. , Neoscona crucifera, for example
Species Neoscona crucifera
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
bugguide.net
I can't really see the web, but if it's normally like a Charlotte's web style round web, it's an orb weaver of some type. if it's more like the visible web in that picture, irregular and more 3-D in shape, it's more likely to be a cobweb spider of some sort in the Theridiidae family
Best paragraph of the day right there. Jizz mittens. I wanna market them and get Vince the slap choppy guy to do the commercials. Special mittens for beatin’ it.
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