Unfortunately we're also losing species at the fastest rate ever.

Except far less dangerous!

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then!

Yeah, but like, is it really Centromerus? That genus has not been revised. It would be interesting to see genetic data.

Wow! "Centromerus" perhaps? That epigynum is wild.

Mostly a surprise when we get home. But we did catch a few carabids!

We are attempting to rediscover a few lost species.

We saw plenty of gators. Paddled right by a few. No snakes...yet.

Thanks! Jackson gave me the run down of what to collect add far as millipedes are concerned.

@tyuge.bsky.social and @derekhennen.bsky.social - I have successfully gotten the permit changed to "arthropods!"

Noooo idea. All we know about this species is what it looks like and its name, like most linyphiids. 😫 We'll be searching on Billy's Island, though, so hopefully it's a bit more widespread within the park.

What's extra interesting here is that the males of every other species in this genus not only lacks spines like these, but, in its place possesses soft patches of microsetae. Could these stout spines be mimicking the function of soft microsetae patches? It seems unlikely?

One of the most interesting morphological quirks of this spider is a character I have never seen in any other spider, regardless of taxonomic family, and that is the presence of two stout spines on the male clypeus. The clypeus is on the "face" just below the anterior eyes, above the chelicerae.