You latest edition of SPIDERDAY!  (sorry, folks, it’s been a busy week, so I just don’t have as many links as usual)

An amazing photo of a Solifuges (aka Camel Spider), by Sean McCann

• My Read of the Week is this story: a spider that looks and smells like bird droppings.
• A “poison cave” in Romania hosts some incredible animals, including some Arachnids.
• did you know this…? The rather famous peacock spiders were originally called “gliding spiders”, with a thought that they used their flaps as wings.
• Jumping spider personalities change after exposure to pesticides (yeah, I know, tooting my own horn here!)
• Love these fangs! A “mysterious” funnel-web spider in Australia found with blood-red fangs.
• For the taxonomically inclined… a new species of Dysderidae from Turkey.
• Now *this* is a handsome spider: