Dewdrop spider

Dewdrop Spider

Greetings, BugFans, In honor of Halloween, we’re ending the month with a spider. A very cool little spider with a big story. The Dewdrop spider Argyrodes elevatus (Argyrodes means “silver-like), in the Cobweb/Comb-footed/Tangle-web spider family Theridiidae, doesn’t live around here, though other genera of …

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