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  • Scheuchzer, 1731-33: spiders
  • Ten spiders, showing much variation in shape and colour. Gouache painting.
  • Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.
  • A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.
  • Above, two bees, two marmots, a tropical palm, a heron and a crane; below, two spiders, a treelike plant, two fish and a tunicate animal of the class Ascidiacea. Engraving by Heath.
  • Garden spider
  • Wolf spider eyes
  • Jumping spider (Hentzia)
  • Spider (Unknown sp.)
  • Spider spinneret (Unknown sp.)
  • Jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Jumping spider (Phidippus audax)
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Male jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus)
  • Broadsheet: The Spider and Fly
  • Above, a diadem-spider hanging from its thread; middle, a diadem-spider seen from the side; below, the lower body and a cross-section of a diadem-spider's leg. Lithograph.
  • Araneus diadematus orb web Spider (female)
  • Silk-spinning organs of a spider
  • Male jumping spider (possibly Platycryptus undatus)
  • Ivory ornamental spider silk (Poecilotheria subfusca)
  • Orange and white jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Male black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) molting
  • A red water-spider (Hydrachna coccinea). Coloured engraving.
  • Beetle larva living on a spider-hunting wasp
  • A spider-monkey climbing up a tree. Etching.
  • A spider, both enlarged and life size. Coloured engraving.
  • A garden spider, shown in the centre of its web. Chromolithograph, 1870.
  • White-jointed spider: two specimens and anatomical parts. Coloured engraving, ca. 1789, after S. Storie.
  • The Thorn Spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis) is a neotropical spider of the Micrathena schreibersi species of orb weavers (Araneidae). The spider has a wide distribution throughout Central and South America. Females are large and brightly colored, and have a triangular abdomen with black margins and 10 prominent spines. Males are smaller and less conspicuous than females and are less frequently encountered.