October 30th: The Butterfly Pavilion - Spiders of the World! (Part 1: Spiders)

Starting last year (as far as I know), the Butterfly Pavilion has done a seasonal display of spiders for Halloween. For the month of October they have more spiders on display in all of their various sections, including orbweavers in an open-air area that you can walk through to get up close to them.

The snow from the previous couple of days had dampened some of my Halloween enthusiasm, but this was one of the things we'd hoped to do for the holiday, and I'm glad we did!

A favorite of the tarantulas for the day, a type of Indian ornamental. Such yellow knees! Such fuzzy toes!

Green-bottle blue tarantula. Always a favorite, so colorful!

( Eight more spiders below the cut: )