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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Arachnids</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Cellar Spider Eating a Clover Weevil</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/25/cellar-spider-eating-a-clover-weevil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another species (well, actually two species) that I&#8217;ve already posted before: on June 26, 2011, a cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides) on our back porch eaves was wrapping up a Clover weevil (Sitona hispidulus) that it had caught for its next meal. The previous cellar-spider pictures were, frankly, kind of lousy, so hopefully these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Jumping Spider with Green Patches</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/07/fat-jumping-spider-with-green-patches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught this large jumping spider with a sweep-net in the back yard on July 3, 2011. She was pretty close to a centimeter long, which for a jumping spider around here is pretty huge. She was also obviously full of eggs, which would be why her abdomen was bulging so much. Spiders are hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common House Spider &#8211; Cobweb Weaver</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/29/common-house-spider-cobweb-weaver/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/29/common-house-spider-cobweb-weaver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I had pictures of a lady beetle that had been caught by a spider in our windowsill, and promised to get to the spider later. Well, now it&#8217;s time for the spider: She&#8217;s a common type that builds cobwebs in the corners of windows and doorjams, both inside and outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Dung Beetle &#8211; Calamosternus</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/09/small-dung-beetle-calamosternus/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/09/small-dung-beetle-calamosternus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam found this little (only about 5 mm long) beetle for me on May 21, 2011 (Yes! It is from this year!). It was determined to make life difficult for me by running around, so this is the best shot I could get while it was upright. Once upside down, it seemed more or less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolf spider with eggs</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/04/23/wolf-spider-with-eggs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolf spiders are very common in our yard, and are particularly noticeable in the spring before the grass grows up. We found this very well-camouflaged one on May 6, 2010, carrying what looked like a little pebble attached to the end of her abdomen. That&#8217;s actually an egg case she&#8217;s carrying. This is the typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masses of black mites with red legs &#8211; Clover mites</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/03/12/masses-of-black-mites-with-red-legs-clover-mites/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/03/12/masses-of-black-mites-with-red-legs-clover-mites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a large boulder in the front yard that the girls and I like to play on (Sandy bought it for me on my birthday a couple of years ago. She got it at the gravel pit in Hancock. It&#8217;s about 6 feet in diameter. I&#8217;m very fond of it). It is gradually weathering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engorged Deer Tick</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/01/engorged-deer-tick/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/01/engorged-deer-tick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[November]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ticks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, our tick season had almost exclusively been April-June, with the primary tick species being the Wood Tick, Dermacentor variabilis. But then, on October 30 of 2010, Sandy was petting the dog and found this: &#8220;This&#8221; being a blood-engorged female tick. It was about the size of a raisin, which was actually a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orb Web and Funnel Web</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/11/27/orb-web-and-funnel-web/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/11/27/orb-web-and-funnel-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arachnids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funnel-weavers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the backyard near the strawberry patch, we have a free-standing iron plant-hanger. A tiny little yellow orb-weaver spider used it as a support for a tiny little orb web, about two inches across: I expect it was a recently-hatched spider, with a body maybe one or two millimeters long. These pictures show the virtues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexton Beetle, with Hitch-Hiking Mites</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/10/09/sexton-beetle-with-hitch-hiking-mites/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/10/09/sexton-beetle-with-hitch-hiking-mites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this beetle in the bare ground next to our garage on August 10. It is similar, but not identical, to some that we found eating a dead mouse about three years ago: This is definitely one of the Sexton Beetles, genus Nicrophorus, which are large and pretty distinctively colored carrion beetles. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Monarchs Die</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/11/how-the-monarchs-die/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/11/how-the-monarchs-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a good year locally for Monarch butterflies. We have a lot of milkweed growing around the place, and in particular there is a smooth-leaved variety growing back in the woods that the Monarchs really like. Around the middle of July, it was to the point that practically every milkweed plant had at least [...]]]></description>
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