Colin Chiu

Average spider enthusiast. UAlberta MSc.
@cosmophasis on iNaturalist & bluesky

[Thomas Hall @GiveMeMollusks]

So excited for #ICE2024 !! Come see my talk on the effect of mowing on stem-dwelling insects! I'm also doing a giveaway: first 5 people to find me in Kyoto get a free sticker or acrylic pin designed by yours truly 😉😉😉

[Bryce McQuillan @Bryce_McQuillan]

Peripatus, Dansey Reserve, Rotorua
Last night temperatures were ideal for spotting these beautiful invertebrates. Peripatus are often on tree fern trunks during the night.

Photographed on a tree fern trunk.

[Colin Chiu @ColinCHW]

@6eyes8legs You have to click the 'following' tab at the top right :)

[bugsexthedoc @bugsexthedoc]

We all want to know if the rumours are true: will a bite from a #BlackWidowSpider kill you instantly? ☠️

Dr. Catherine Scott sets the record straight! 🕷️

#BugSex #ItsComplicated #Documentary #Film #CBC #TheNatureOfThings #BritishColumbia #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids

[Shahan Derkarabetian @sderkarabetian]

Snowpiliones

[Marc A. Milne @ForTheSpiders]

The tiny horned male spider, Floricomus ornatulus (Linyphiidae).

This species was lost, not seen for 78 years since it was described in the 30's until it was rediscovered in 2013 from the campus of @berrycollege in Georgia, USA by a former student. #lostspecies

[Sheila Colla, Ph.D @SaveWildBees]

1. Honeybees are not in decline, profits are.
2. Making a commercial bee more resilient to disease is not good for wild bees if they continue to be vectors
3. Some articles on this topic say honeybees are critical for the environment in the US, not true, they are introduced.

[Naufal Urfi @kalakemangga.bluesky.social @KalaKemangga]

Apparently Spinembolia clabnum is listed as NT on IUCN on the assumption that it is endemic to Seychelles and the habitat is threatened by invasives. But me and @ColinCHW found some from Java and HK which if true means the IUCN status must be revised.
https://t.co/q5KtbsmDcE

[Elise Sivault @ESivault]

I had the chance to find Epicadus heterogaster using a uv lamp during a trip in the Peruvian Amazon. Such a beautiful spider 🕸️🕷️

[ケシカタ @yiBuGdVuTBSJpRJ]

あんまり狙って取れないのではっ���ー☺️

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Another rant of mine. The unsustainable collecting of Australian invertebrates is driving some species (especially scorpions) to near extinction and nothing is being done. I was SHOCKED just then to learn the Peacock Spider I discovered has been smuggled overseas now for big 💵

[Colin Chiu @ColinCHW]

@arachnonaut @neville_park @this_is_the_mos Think it's Poltys idae! :)

[Colin Chiu @ColinCHW]

@cnestus Pseudoscorp clock???

[Marshal Hedin @marshalhedin]

fly >> wasp

I love the agility / complexity / beauty of these flies

[Sasagani_ya @Sasagani_ya]

遂に、日本七大珍種ワクドツキジグモの扇形水平網を撮影！
これにて、「クモの巣ハンドブック」に掲載されている全網型を野外で観察することが叶いました。
A female bird-dung orb weaver (Pasilobus hupingensis) and its horizontal orb web.
#クモの巣ウォッチング
https://t.co/YJjQvNCLkf

[Jun-Gi Lee @JGLee_Aranea]

My new paper (as a coworker) is just published :)
Description of four Sinopoda species (S. bigibba, S. bogil, S. pantherina and S. jirisanensis) and removing S. forcipata and S. stellatops from Korean spider fauna.

[SHOGO NOGUCHI @Shogo_spider]

Euryopis nigra Yoshida 2000
E. nigra gathered ants and ate in the back of a leaf.

[Colin Chiu @ColinCHW]

@VishnuH67707449 @BritishSpiders @LBrianPatrick @Biodiversity001 @arachnofiles @WSC_NMBE @MondaySpider I think this is an Epocilla instead. Nice find!