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Quadrat Markius

@quadratiy.bsky.social

Happy #saveaspiderday lads

March 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

@animal-aspects.bsky.social

Resharing for #SaveASpiderDay 🕷️🕸️

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jul 31

#ArtDeco black crystal perfume bottle, Josef Schmidt, Czechoslovakia, c. 1930
With clear prismbeveled stopper; jeweled silvered metal mount as a #spider on web attributed to Turriet & Bardach (bottle & metal marked Austria). 7 1/4 in.
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

official auction photo of the perfume bottle, front view on gradient grey background

March 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

@animal-aspects.bsky.social

Resharing for #SaveASpiderDay on #Caturday:

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Feb 14

#Caturday 🐱:
Kathleen Irene (Kay) Nixon, SWA (UK, 1895-1988)
#Cat and #Spider, c.1960
Watercolor on paper
www.hamsheregallery.co.uk/stock.php?id...
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists

Watercolor on paper of an orange cat seated in a Wisteria observing a spider in its web.

March 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM

Saunieindiego

@saunieindiego.bsky.social

Happy #SaveASpiderDay
#arachnids

March 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

@animal-aspects.bsky.social

Resharing for #SaveASpiderDay 🕷️🕸️

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Nov 13

Yay I found the giant #spider! 🕷️
Also check out this book they have in the gift shop 😂
Louise Bourgeois (USA, b. France, 1911-2010)
Spider, 1996
Bronze
@explorenoma.bsky.social NOMA Sculpture Garden 98.112
#HSS2025

photo of the giant spider sculpture in the sculpture garden

photo of the book in gift shop:
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Made Giant Spiders and Wasn't Sorry.
by Fausto Gilberti

March 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

@animal-aspects.bsky.social

Resharing for #SaveASpiderDay 🕷️🕸️

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Mar 15

A lovely #spider piece for #SaveASpiderDay … #PleaseNoSquish 🕷️🕸️:
Spindle with foot plate
Russia, 18th c.
Gold, baroque pearl, rose stones, enamel
W 1.6 x L 1.7 cm, 3 g
Hallwylska museet:
samlingar.shm.se/object/DDE89...

"SPINDLE with foot plate. Made of gold with baroque pearl, rose stones and enamel. The spider with the legs of gold, with remnants of black enamel, the back body (abdomen) consisting of a large baroque pearl, the underside convex of black enamel, the head and mouthpiece with a rose stone. Diameter with outer ring: 8.3 cm. Plate, diameter: 7.8 cm. Foot plate: Of gilt silver, square with beveled turned down edge, upper side coated with green enamel on grass-like bottom pattern. Weight: 3.7 gr. Page length: 2.6 Antaglian Russian work from the 18th century. Purchased by Wilhelmina von Hallwyl September 1896 from antiques dealer Ed Kahlert, Germany.

Museum: Hallwyl Museum
Object designation: Spider
Category: 36. XXXVI Jewelery etc
Material: Enamel, Gold, GEM, Rose stones
Size: Width 1.6 cm, Length 1.7 cm, Weight 3 g
Dating: 1700 – 1799
18th century
Manufacturing location: Russia

Photo: Bonnevier, Helena, Hallwylska museum/SHM (CC BY 4.0)

(same object, photo shows spider separated from plate)

March 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia)

@animal-aspects.bsky.social

Resharing for #SaveASpiderDay!
#PleaseNoSquish 🕷️

Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Mar 15

For #SaveASpiderDay please enjoy this sparkly #spider bling from the 2021 AMNH ”Beautiful Creatures” exhibition:
Tarantula brooch by Hemmerle, 1995; horse conch pearl, Umba sapphires, diamonds, colored diamonds and gold.
#PleaseNoSquish 🕷️

gallery label:
Tarantula brooch
Hemmerle, 1995
Horse conch pearl, Umba sapphires, diamonds, colored diamonds and gold
This tarantula brooch was part of a series of animal-themed jewels created by the family-owned German firm Hemmerle between 1979 and 1996. The natural 111.76-carat brown horse conch pearl in the rear segment of the tarantula, an arachnid, is believed to be one of, if not the, largest natural horse conch pearls in the world.
Courtesy of Hemmerle

March 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM

TonyCartoonish (Tony Helms)

@tonycartoonish.bsky.social

Happy Save a Spider Day! #saveaspiderday #nationalsaveaspiderday #spiderday #happysaveaspiderday
It is also Learn About Butterflies Day…

March 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM

SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading)

@subrosamagick.bsky.social

Fun fact. Wolf spiders will hunt and eat brown recluse spiders (also known as fiddlebacks), in addition to venomous black widow spiders, cockroaches, crickets, beetles and silverfish.
Please don't squish them.
#SaveASpiderDay

March 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM

Rob Cruickshank

@robcruickshank.bsky.social

Bathroom friend must have known that it was #SaveASpiderDay, and is now basement friend #spider

March 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Blue Appaloosa

@blueappaloosa.bsky.social

Hey @franzanth.bsky.social apparently March 14 is #SaveASpiderDay if you don't have that or your calendar yet!

March 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM

Eric R. Eaton

@bugeric.bsky.social

In honor of Save A Spider Day, here’s a crummy phone photo of an immature White-jawed Jumping Spider on our front porch railing today. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. #bugsky #spiders #saveaspiderday #arachnid

Small, elongate jumping spider, beige in color with darker brown markings, crawling on the painted wood railing of our front porch, on a sunny day.

March 15, 2026 at 12:46 AM

John Irvine

@polypanjohvin.bsky.social

SAVE A SPIDER DAY
Little acts of mercy go a long way.

Copyright ©️ John Irvine, 2026
#saveaspiderday #saveaspiderday🕷 #saveaspider #spider #spiders

March 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM

Saunieindiego

@saunieindiego.bsky.social

Happy #SaveASpiderDay!

March 15, 2026 at 1:55 AM

Claire Ohlenschlager

@claireohl.bsky.social

#whattodoonmywaytowork #day133 #month4 #daysoftheyear #holi #happyholi #saveaspiderday🕷 #stickfigure #create #creativity #onedayatatime #todaysdoodle #doodle #sketch #illustrate #sketchbookdrawing #commute #commuterart

March 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM

Herbiⓥore

@herbivoreclub.bsky.social

#NationalSaveASpiderDay
#SaveASpiderDay 🕷

This is a three-panel comic featuring a cartoon spider and a person with a flip-flop.

1. In the first panel, a small, fluffy-looking spider with big eyes is sitting on a flat surface. A speech bubble from an unseen person exclaims, **"A SPIDER!!"** in bold, jagged text.

2. In the second panel, a hand tightly grips a purple flip-flop, raised in the air. The speech bubble reads, **"I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE!!"**, suggesting an intent to squash the spider.

3. In the final panel, instead of harming the spider, the person gently uses the flip-flop to transport it outside onto the grass, where other small spiders are visible. A speech bubble above the hand reads, **"YOU DESERVE TO LIVE..."**

The comic carries a compassionate message about choosing kindness towards all creatures. The artist's handle, **@vegan.frank**, is in the bottom right corner.

March 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM

Wildwood Farm Sanctuary and Preserve

@wildwoodsanctuary.bsky.social

Our spider friends help control insect populations, pollinate plants, and create beautiful webs.
If you find a spider in your home, don’t shoo it away—consider gently relocating it outside. Every creature deserves kindness and respect. 💚
#saveaspiderday #lovealllife #respectnature #bekindtoallkinds

March 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM

Jamie Roxx Artist

@jamieroxxartist.bsky.social

Today, March 14th. 2025, is National #SaveASpiderDay!

A #Painting I painted a few years ago:

‘#Spider Song’

2017 acrylic and oil blend on canvas 18"x24"
by Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx
www.JamieRoxx.us
This Sold Painting is Not Available.

#MidCenturyModern #Abstract #PopArt