Spiders
I want you to take a moment to appreciate what you are seeing here in this photo from Andrew Lin. The splayed-wide spider is a small jumping spider. See the fuzzy lump at the end of its leg? That’s a Steatoda triangulosa. What’s it doing up there?
Winning.
Andrew says he saw the jumping spider and ran to grab his camera; while he was shooting it walked right into a cobweb, much like the spider he photographed for us last month.
Thanks, Andrew!
[Edit: I wrote this post back on Monday, but InsectPOD decided to eat it. Not really sure. Maybe it crawled into a corner cobweb as well? I have try to recreate it as much as possible.]
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
Andrew said,
August 1, 2008 @ 10:10 am
This spider story ended differently than the last. While there was an epic battle between the jumping spider and the cobweb spider — at one point, the cobweb spider was knocked from its web and had to run across the floor and remount — the cobweb spider made a tactical mistake and ended up in the jaws of the jumping spider.
The jumping spider, whom I refer to as Frank (think Mary Shelley), didn’t bother eating the cobweb spider though. Once that threat was nullified, Frank was still stuck, dangling above the floor.
Frank tried to chew through the webbing, but was getting nowhere. When it tired, it would just hang for a while, resting, then try again. Happily for Frank, it eventually escaped the web… sans one hind leg.
Brian L. said,
August 10, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
Say… Wasn’t this post the one year anniversary?
Shouldn’t there be a celebration?
Will anyone even see this comment, seeing as how its over a week late?
Ah, the great mysteries of life.