bexelated:

All right, so I was looking at nature things (as you do) and this came up.

Now, i’ll be the first i’m a terrible arachnaphobe and nearly tackled my mother to get out of the way of one but just look at how beautiful this is. Plus, this is not photoshopped.

It is in fact a Cyclocosmia truncata, Spider Tsiklokosmiya or in lamens terms, a Trapdoor Spider.

It is also known as ‘The Ravine Trapdoor Spider’