It’s been a couple of weeks, but nevertheless, here is another edition of SPIDERDAY! All the best Arachnid-themed links, pulled from the web in the last little while.

Just look at this Jumping spider keeping an eye on her babies! Photo by Nick Porch (reproduced here with permission)

• Myth-busting time: do we really swallow spiders when we sleep? (spoiler: NO)
• Yay! Rod Crawford’s “Spider Myth” page has been revamped.
• Origami spiders. That is all.
• Talk about an overreaction: an “infestation” of false widow spiders force school closures in the UK. Sigh.
• A video about how spider webs could inspire sticker glues. 
• Undergraduate students in my field biology class wrote a blog post about spiders. 
• Ant-mimicking jumping spiders are too amazing for words, so here’s a photo:

• Wasps that parasitize spider eggs. Yup, it happens all the time.
• Catch that prey – Do it! Do it! A GIF that says it all. 
• For those keen on spider taxonomy, here’s a paper about rethinking a family placement for a spider species. I love this line from the paper “We came across a jar…”
• A preprint that is of significant interest to many: Spider phylogenomics: untangling the spider tree of life.
• A spider-themed sculpture makes a new record at auction. That’s something I could not afford!
• I simply adore this Arachnid-themed comic! Gotta love pseudoscorpions.

• Speaking of pseudoscorpions, here’s a story about some that hitch rides on bats. That’s incredible natural history! This is my Read Of The Week. 
• A wonderful story about an Opiliones (Harvestmen Harvestperson) with a very suitable name (hint: think about the secretive cave-dwelling character in the Lord of the Rings)
• Terrific photo of an oribatid mite. 
• Here’s an amazing 3D drawing of a spider (and how to do it). Wow.