What an extra special find today in our gardens! I was in the back yard, pulling henbit and chickweed (SO MUCH OF IT!). After I pulled away some hairy roots, I spotted some legs. Oooooooo! I accidentally uncovered a beautiful, young Comstock's wafer trapdoor spider (Myrmekiaphila comstocki). Happy, happy!
I found my first trapdoor spider 16 years ago. It was a female. Three years ago, we actually found a trapdoor and later another one. In 2018, I found oodles of newly hatched babies. So cute!
