Gallery 1

Photographs by Kimberly Rama Fleming (myriorama)

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[1.1]  Attempted mating by an adult male Phidippus cardinalis with a feeding adult female of the same species.   If you look closely, you can also see a small flying insect on the head of this orthopteran prey.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.2]  Female Phidippus (probably P. whitmani) feeding on a large woodland caterpillar.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.3]  Phidippus whitmani, an inhabitant of leaf litter.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.4]  Female Phidippus whitmani.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.5]  Male Hentzia mitrata.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.6]  Adult male Thiodina.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.7]  Male Thiodina.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.8]  Adult male Thiodina, feeding on a captured orthopteran.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.9]  Male Thiodina, feeding on a captured fly (Diptera: Brachycera).  Abbeville County, South Carolina.  These small flies can be very common on shrubs and herbaceous plants near woodland areas.

[1.10]  Female Thiodina.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.11]  Thiodina feeding on a captured damselfly.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.  Thiodina use stealth to stalk within range of large prey, including spiders.  Their rocking movements as they advance toward prey have also been observed in salticids of the genus Phyaces.

[1.12]  Female Pelegrina galathea.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.13]  Adult male Lyssomanes viridis.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.14]  Immature Lyssomanes viridis.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.

[1.15]  Immature Phidippus feeding on ant.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.  This appears to be an immature P. princeps.  Immatures of this species resemble adult female P. clarus in late summer, when the latter are adults.

[1.16]  Immature salticids.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.  These are second instars, recently emerged.  They look like Phidippus.

[1.17]  Immature salticid.  Abbeville County, South Carolina.  This a detail of one of the spiders shown in [1.16].