Spiderday! Here’s some Arachnid-themed links I stumbled across over the past week.

Green Lynx spider eating Green Lynx spider. By Nash Turley

• A story about a spider that destroys female genitalia to prevent future mating. My Read Of The Week.
• I love this – a construction project halted because of potential cave spiders.
• Some bioinspiration, spider-style: A North Face parka made from synthetic spider silk.
• Worth a listen (and look): an Arachnid Orchestra.
• Check out those ants. No, wait… one of them is a little different than the others…. SPIDERS! Myrmecophilic spiders!
• Two new jumping spider species. And not just any species.. but “horned” species.

Fish-eating spiders. Oh, yeah!

• Trying really hard to get a false widow spider to bite. Good luck.
• Don’t love this story… but an interesting study nevertheless: pesticide effects on brown widow egg cases.
• Here’s a really interesting article on the Phylogeography of “Subterranean Alpine” Spiders. Spiders spin steely silken spleandour.
• Here’s another fantastic article: weapon trimorphism in Opiliones.
• A wonderful series of images of mites.
• Amblypygids are awesome. Really, they are.
• A great video on the biology and courtship of the Peacock spider: