#tetragnathidae

[herpsandbirds]

Orchard Orbweaver (Leucauge venusta), female, family Tetragnathidae, Clark County, Ohio, USA

photograph by Terri Norris

[onenicebugperday]

@starstruck-critter submitted: any clue what this little guy could be? found in [removed] (please remove location)

This guy is a woman! She’s a big-eyed thick-jawed spider (excellent common name), Pachygnatha autumnalis. That’s a type of long-jawed orbweaver in the family Tetragnathidae :)

[ljsbugblog]

Unknown Stretch Spider (genus Tetragnatha), April '24.

[rattyexplores]

Flat Spider

Unidentified, family Tetragnathidae

22/03/23 - NSW

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Arachtober!

Check out the amazing long leglashes on this orchard orbweaver (Leucauge venusta)!

[cnestus]

long-jawed orb weaver (Tetragnathidae)

[arachnophanatic]

Long-jawed orb-weaver (Tetragnathidae family)

Species Tetragnatha extensa

[drhoz]

#1997 - Tetragnatha sp. - Long-jawed Orbweaver

Photo by Patrick Wake.

Another species of Long-jawed spider from Cooleenup Island. Quite different in colour from the ones I've posted in the past. Fabulous view of the huge jaws that the males and females compare when judging each other as mates

[bugsoupforthesoul]

Spiders around the garden

[ifelten]

Engstavedderkop (Tetragnatha extensa)

Common Stretch-spider (Tetragnatha extensa)

[helluvatimes]

Life is but a Weaving

A Long-jawed Orb Weaver weaving for a living in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua. 

This was taken with a consumer telephoto zoom that produced excellent resolution in the centre of the optics. So the spider was here placed in the centre of the frame and the image was then cropped to compose in post. This was a 40 percent crop of the original capture.

[herpsandbirds]

Howdy! I love your blog so much! Was wondering if you might be able help ID this lil lad(y) i found hanging out between my mailbox and the hand railing. I tried some googling but I'm not the best at that, the closest I could get was some kind of garden spider? I live around the Philly metro area.

Thanks! :)

Spider ID

I know this one, we get them at the park where Paxon works, all the time.

Orchard Orbweaver (Leucauge venusta), family Tetragnathidae

[onenicebugperday]

@arcane-drifter submitted: just wanted to share this delightful Long Boy- or girl, I'm not super great at telling them apart. either way they brought me joy, I'd never seen a spider like this before!

Long boy for sure! Those clubbed pedipalps are very manly. This fella is a long-jawed orbweaver in the family Tetragnathidae.

[ljsbugblog]

my first male Silver Orb! observed cruising around looking for ladies.

Silver Orb Spider, male (Leucauge dromedaria), March '24.

[rattyexplores]

Very young Stretch Spider, genus Tetragnatha. Possibly the smallest specimen I’ve found.

04/05/22

[whatnext10]

The Stretch Spiders Have an Interesting Lifestyle

The Stretch Spiders Have an Interesting Lifestyle introduces readers to these interesting little spiders. It points out several reasons that they are unique, and provides photos that show those features.

Hang Up Oftentimes out by my ponds, I find these long, thin spiders hanging in their horizontal webs above the water. Sometimes the webs are attached to the walls of the pond and others they are spun around the surrounding vegetation. Sometimes I even find the spiders running along the surface of the water just like the fishing spiders can. They are small spiders, and they tend to be kind of…