spiders – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Bold Jumper Spider On A Cattail

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-21T04:07:18-05:00October 21st, 2023|Categories: Bold Jumper Spiders, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: autumn, Bold Jumper, Bold Jumping Spider, cattails, city park, fall, immature, jumping spider, jumping spiders, juvenile, Phidippus audax, resting, spider, spiders, urban|

Earlier this week, while I was out walking around my local pond, a small dark dot on a cattail caught my eye. That 'dot' was a Bold Jumper Spider.

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Antelope Island Spider Fest 2021

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T10:06:02-05:00July 11th, 2021|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: 2021, adult, desert island, female, Neoscona oaxacensis, orbweaver, orbweavers, spider, Spider Fest, Spider Festival, spider web, spiders, summer, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

The Antelope Island Spider Fest starts on August 2, 2021 and continues through August 7, 2021 this year.

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My First Desert Tarantula Sighting In Utah

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-05T05:03:01-05:00September 11th, 2020|Categories: Desert Tarantulas, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Aphonopelma iodius, canyon, desert, Desert Tarantula, dirt road, first, foothills, mountains, road, sighting, spider, spiders, tarantula, tarantulas, walking, west desert|

I was so excited that I was shaking because the creature I had found was a Desert Tarantula which was my first sighting of one in Utah.

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Focusing On The Spiders Of Antelope Island State Park

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T15:18:53-05:00July 22nd, 2020|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: focusing, Neoscona oaxacensis, orbweaver, orbweavers, photographing, spider, Spider Fest, Spider Fest 2020, spiders, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

I spent some time yesterday morning focusing on photographing the spiders of Antelope Island State Park on the island and the causeway to it because this is a great time of the year to see them.

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Celebrate The Spiders Of Antelope Island – Spider Fest On August 3, 2019

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T09:43:38-05:00July 27th, 2019|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Mule Deer, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: activities, face, festival, Mule Deer, Neoscona oaxacensis, Odocoileus hemionus, prey, spider, Spider Festival, SpiderFest, spiders, web, webs, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

Mark your calendars because there is a yearly Spider Festival on Antelope Island State Park and this year the festival is being held next Saturday on August 3, 2019.

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Spiders Of Antelope Island – They Aren’t So Creepy

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T15:21:45-05:00July 10th, 2018|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: Antelope Island SpiderFest, female, females, Neoscona oaxacensis, orbweaver, orbweavers, resting, spider, spiders, web, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

Every year in August Antelope Island has a SpiderFest where there are walks and talks about the spiders of that live on the island, I love photographing them and they really aren't so creepy as they seem to be.

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Limpkins in Florida

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-15T16:29:41-05:00October 5th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Lake Seminole, Limpkins, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands|Tags: adult, Apple Snail, Aramus guarauna, call, calling, frogs, grasses, insects, Limpkin, limpkins, mussels, snails, spiders, swimming, walking, water, wetlands, winter|

Florida is about as far north as Limpkins are found in North America and they can be seen in freshwater marshes, ponds, lakeshores and swamps.

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Time for Antelope Island’s SpiderFest!

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T09:42:23-05:00August 5th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: female, male, Neoscona oaxacensis, orb weaver, orbweavers, spider, spiders, web, Western Spotted Orbweaver, wildlife|

Today is the day for SpiderFest on Antelope Island State Park, a celebration of the interesting spiders that live on the island.

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Antelope Island Spiders – An Important Part of the Food Web

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T15:31:00-05:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Brine Flies, Davis County, Prairie Falcons, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: Arachnids, Arachnophilia, biodiversity, birds of prey, brine fly, Ephydra cinerea, Ephydra hians, Falco mexicanus, falcon, falcons, food web, Prairie Falcon, spider, spiders, Western Spotted Orbweaver|

This coming Saturday, August 8, 2015, is the date 0f the annual Spider Festival on Antelope Island State Park and there should be plenty of spiders to be seen, almost a bumper crop of them!

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Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike on a Tintic Quartzite Boulder

By Mia McPherson|2021-02-27T09:59:17-06:00July 17th, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Loggerhead Shrikes, Utah|Tags: boulder, immature, juvenile, Lanius ludovicianus, Loggerhead Shrike, perched, shrike, shrikes, spiders, Tintic Quartzite, young|

Antelope Island State Park is full of juvenile Loggerhead Shrikes right now so it looks like the shrikes had a very successful nesting season.

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Antelope Island is becoming Spiderific!

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-11T09:47:48-05:00July 13th, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: Neoscona oaxacensis, orbweaver, orbweavers, spider, spiders, Western Spotted Orbweaver, wildlife, wildlife photography|

Antelope Island State Park's Spider Festival is just a few weeks away and the spiders and their webs are already making an appearance.

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Creepy Crawly Spiders for Halloween

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-05T08:20:49-05:00October 31st, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders, Florida, Sawgrass Lake Park, Utah, Venutsa Orchard Spiders, Western Spotted Orbweaver|Tags: Argiope aurantia, Leucauge venusta, nature, nature photography, Neoscona oaxacensis, spider webs, spiders, wildlife, wildlife photography|

First, I want to admit something. I don't think spiders are creepy or crawly. They do crawl at times but I think they are beautiful creatures.

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Things that bug me – Golden-silk Spider

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-21T02:42:47-05:00September 23rd, 2013|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Golden-silk Spiders, Wildlife|Tags: bugs, female, Golden-silk Spiders, nature, nature photography, photography, Pinellas County, spider, spiders, Trichonephila clavipes, wildlife, wildlife photography|

This is a female Golden-silk Spider I photographed way back in September of 2007 while wandering Arrow Head Trail at Fort De Soto County Park.

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Golden-silk Spider

By Mia McPherson|2023-08-05T08:23:11-05:00October 31st, 2012|Categories: Florida, Golden-silk Spiders, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: gold web, Golden-silk Spiders, nature, nature photography, spider web, spiders, Trichonephila clavipes, wildlife, wildlife photography|

I scoured my files and the scariest thing I could come up with for Halloween is this Golden-silk Spider (other than images of me). I don't think it is really scary except that it doesn't have feathers or fur.

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