I’m delighted to bring you the twelfth instalment of SPIDERDAY! All your arachnid links, at your fingertips!

Please note: I’m going to be away (vacation time…) for part of August – your next Spiderday will likely be on 22 August. Hope you can wait that long!

From Jonathan Kolby, an awesome net-casting spider! Amazing animals.

• Green Lynx Spiders – friend or foe? My Read of the Week.
• A moth that mimics a jumping spider. And if you don’t believe the photo, there’s a paper about it too.
• The Spider Forest: Here’s a great field work adventure, in which spiders kind of get in the way of research. 
• Boom: new spider species (in Kerala). Always good news.
• Wolf spider cannibalism? Yes, it’s important.
• Spider of the Dominican Republic: there’s a blog for that.
• Here’s a very interesting post that is all about how wasps take down spiders: spiders are prey too!
• Here’s a video on that topic:

• in New Zealand, here’s a post about mites that may prove to be important biological control agents against wasps. Mite-y powerful!
• On damselflies and mites: Regionally widespread parasitic water mites have relatively broad host species ranges. Nifty paper!
• An unlucky Opiliones: