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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Spiders</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>Female Orb Weaver Spider</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/05/09/male-orb-weaver-spider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this late in the season, on November 19, 2011. It was dragging itself slowly down the hall next to the big windows in the building I work in, so I scooped it up and brought it home. I originally thought that this was a male, mainly because it was smaller than the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large, black, furry jumping spider</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/05/02/large-black-furry-jumping-spider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this unusually large jumping spider on one of the roof support pillars on our front porch on July 18, 2011. He was a big, black, furry, sinister-looking specimen, over a centimeter long. Normally, jumping spiders are kind of cute, but this one has more the air of the insect murderer that he actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Jumping Spider with Green Mouthparts</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/02/29/black-jumping-spider-with-green-mouthparts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[October]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=6244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And for Leap Day, here&#8217;s a little something that leaps! Sandy found this great big jumping spider in the house on October 13, 2011. It was about a centimeter long, which is unusually large for the local jumping spiders. Jumping spiders commonly prey on fruit flies, so Sandy put some of her wingless fruit flies [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/25/cellar-spider-eating-a-clover-weevil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coleoptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[February]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[June]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Month Photographed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pholcid spiders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weevils]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cobweb spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[June]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cosmopolitan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=5631</guid>
		<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>Wolf spider with eggs</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/04/23/wolf-spider-with-eggs/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/04/23/wolf-spider-with-eggs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arachnids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2715</guid>
		<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>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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crab spiders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[velvet mites]]></category>
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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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		<title>Mud Dauber Nest, With Spiders</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/08/28/mud-dauber-nest-with-spiders/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/08/28/mud-dauber-nest-with-spiders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we pulled our barbecue out in the middle of July, we found this mud nest partially constructed inside of it. Since it was going to be killed anyway by the heat when we used the grill, I carefully removed it so that we could get a better look, and see what was inside. We [...]]]></description>
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