Spider anatomy diagram from https://earthlife.net/spider-anatomy-parts-of-spider/ with colored segments labeled.

..of a movie of a salticid cleaning its leg. If you switch back and forth you can see those lighter shiny structures right behind the fangs (the maxillae) are separate and mobile, like two sides of the mouth. These are generally present in spiders (earthlife.net/spider-anato...). hth! 2/2

Screenshot of a 3d model of a spider, we're looking at the bottom of the "head" with the spider facing down. The chalicera and fangs are visible, as well as the coax of the palp and front legs, and the rostrum. The area between the rostrum and chalicera is circled.

Spider people, I need your knowledge! I'm working on a 3d model of a liphistius (segmented spider). I can't find good info/pics on the "mouth" area, between the chalicera/fangs and rostrum. What goes here? Any features that should be present?

#SciArt #Arachnophiles #Spider #Invertebrates

A jumping spider viewed from underneath, with its fangs and maxillae in focus and eyes out of focus in the background. The fangs are dark brown and emerge from the ends of the chelicerae. The maxillae are lighter, shiny, and just underneath the fangs.

A jumping spider viewed from underneath, with its fangs and maxillae in focus and eyes out of focus in the background. The fangs are dark brown and emerge from the ends of the chelicerae. The maxillae are lighter, shiny, and just underneath the fangs. The spider here has one of its hind legs almost right between the maxillae for grooming.

Thanks for the tag! I haven't sculpted anything in this genus, so at some level I'm useless. But I have spent a lot of time studying the same area in jumping spiders. The maxillae are the main structure right behind the chelicerae/fangs. They're hard plates. Here are a couple of screenshots... 1/2

Just went to look at my bee house. Someone was there looking right back at me!

A picture of a weevil facing forward . A shimmery pale orange head and a creamy seafood colored body

Magic opal glitter weevil.
Im always excited to find these!

A brownish-black insect with four yellow spots ion his elytra and a pair of pincer protruding from his abdomen. He is standing on a white sheet.

We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen.
(Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

My hand holding a giant pill bug/wood louse knit out of green/blue gradient yarn. It has blue antennae, 14 blue to green legs and the shell fades from light green to blue to blue green. In the background is a blurry garden.

The Pillbug in its rolled up form. It has a button on its head and a loop at its tail so it stays rolled. It is sitting on a woven rug.

#FOFriday and it’s time. I finished my not-so-mini minibeast, the Roly Poly Pillbug! It’s huge. It’s soft. It rolls up and becomes a cushion. It’s perfect 🤩

🧶 #Knitting

Agreed

A freshly molted brown cockroach nymph sitting on tree bark. The insect is covered with small droplets of condensation, and its carapace is transparent so that you can see its circulatory system just under the surface.

A cockroach so fresh you can see how it works

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

My drawing of a wasp-mimic moth - an incredible black and yellow specimen with long orange antennae.

My drawing of a bright pink and yellow elephant hawkmoth.

A mottled green and brown Oleander hawkmoth, with small pink bits on its wings.

A striped hawmoth - mostly brown, with flashes of hot pink on its lower wings.

Thinking about how cool moths are.

Small brown jumping spider with stubby stripy legs, peering up at you with her giant eyes from a crevice of oak bark

Brown Creeper lass (Attidops cinctipes) with the biggest wettest eyes, shy, very small and she knows it 🥹 I don't see them much this time of year so she was a tiny treat
#EmotionalSupportSpood

A page from my sketchbook, 3 drawings of flower chafer beetle and 1 grub.

Sketchbook page.

Macro photograph of a colourful Rub-tailed Wasp in a Staffordshire garden.

Always a treat to see; a lovely Ruby-tailed Wasp in our #Staffs garden yesterday. #wasp #CuckooWasp #SolitaryWasp

Floofy grey Phidippus jumping spider, a tiny peek of orange booty behind her, on a green leaf tilting her entire head to the side as if she's listening to the ground even though spiders don't have ears

Quiet everyone, she hears* footsteps 👀

This might be the most Illegal Head Tilt Angle I've ever seen on a creature ❤️

Phidippus princeps pulcherrimus lass
#EmotionalSupportSpood

blue and black ink painting of a black hole

I was gonna show you anyway. This is most of my new body of work, called Forces of Nature, going on exhibit soon at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social #sciart

Black Hole, Ink on Yupo, 2026

A macro photo of a slender, tiny wasp atop a batch of katydid eggs. The eggs, which look like brown lima beans, are tiled along a brown grass stem. Four have roundish holes chewed through their sides, where parasitoid wasps (like the one perched on top of them) chewed their way out. The wasp is metallic-copper colored with a yellow abdomen band and large eyes.

A macro photo of a group of katydid eggs, which look like brown lima beans, tiled along a brown grass stem against a pale green background. In the upper right, a tiny wasp's face is peeking out of an escape hole it is chewing from the inside of a katydid egg it has parasitized. A second egg, lower left, has a hole in it where a wasp has already hatched and flown off.

A macro photo of a tiny, green, newly-hatched katydid nymph perched atop a fingertip, against a green and blue-green background. The fingertip and katydid are lower right, and one of the katydid's extremely long antennae stretches all the way up to the upper left corner of the frame.

From a few years ago: katydid eggs mostly parasitized by tiny wasps. When a katydid hatches, the egg opens like a clam shell; but as you can see (pic 2), if there's a parasitoid wasp inside, they chew their way out. Btw, the baby katydid on my fingertip hatched from the same egg clutch. #BugSky 🐙🌿

Female Hairy-footed Flower Bee

1st HFFB! We have seen Hairy-footed Flower bees (Anthophora plumipes) in late February before but always males, so surprised to find a female buzzing around the Pulmonarias yesterday before taking a break on a rustic leaf 🐝🙂. @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

Stubby nugget of a shiny blue metallic wasp, little flappy antennae. Looks like she could curl up into a perfect blue golf ball

Bright blue shiny face of the creature, with perfect tiny toothed mandibles

*clack-clack of tiny teef*

PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙
(they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)

Female Hedgehog Harvestman Nemastomella bacillifera, Billacombe, Plymouth last week - always good to see these 'punk rock' harvestmen

Mottled green and orange treehopper with a magnificent red-tipped horn, standing guard over a twig with rows of her eggs embedded in it

They're back for the coming spring 🥹

Oak treehopper moms stay and guard their eggs and growing nymphs until they're ready to disperse and I love them so much 💚
#InvertebrateParenthood

Me working on the painjob for a lifesize nile crocodile head sculpture

The completed life size nile crocodile head sculpt

Nile croc head, currently on display at Vancouver aquarium

Wide view of a cherry branch with 1 full leaf and another half eaten leaf with a green and brown caterpillar on the end. The caterpillar is camouflaged as the end of a dead leaf.

A closer view of the camouflaged caterpillar

A dead leaf? Unicorn Prominent (Coelodasys unicornis) caterpillar. Forsyth County, NC, USA

A silver background with a pile of 17 hand embroidered sardines all facing the same way - in profile facing to the right.

"Packed Like Sardines 3"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
Back with me after being in an exhibition and now on my website
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p307/p...
#embroidery #WildlifeArt #fish

Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil III. Oil on shale, pencil, some digital. “ART SHARE” text in green overtop. A dragonfly winged trilobite next o some crinoids.

18,000 followers—! Thanks everyone. Let’s do an #ArtShare!

🐡🎨

At last! 🤩

Horseshoe Crab dragon

Cambrian doodles #sciart

Skeleton shrimp: superior snackers

This amphipod in the family Caprellidae, has feather-like setae line several of their 18 appendages for collecting food — amphipod translates to “feet on all sides” in Greek.

#argentiniandeepseeps ~1200 meters

3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*

Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/