A Crabby Spider with Guest Jumping Spiders

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Here is a crab spider for this #spiderday
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Here is a flower crab spider from the genus Mecaphesa.

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They wait inside flowers hoping for bees or flies to come by, then suddenly they pounce on them.

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I tried waiting for some spider attacking bee action but this flower was quite stinky and the mosquitoes started biting. So I ended up leaving it to wait endlessly for food.

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The next day I came back looking for it in the same flower but it had moved a short distance to some prairie plants. Maybe the stinky flower was a bad hunting area.

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I wonder what sort of luck it will have in this spot. Maybe it will catch a dragonfly in this area...

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Now for some tiny little jumpers.

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I suspect this one might be Platycryptus undatus. Very tiny and quite jumpy. I was lucky to barely focus in on this one before it leapt away into oblivion.

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Here is another super tiny jumper that I think is Tutelina elegans. It has a shiny metallic gold body with a bit of purple shine on its bum. I tried getting a shot of its face but again it leapt away into the milkweeds. These guys are so tiny they can only hunt ants or aphids.

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I am not exactly sure which type of jumper this is. If I had to guess it might be a juvenile bold jumping spider. It was the largest of the three and its coloring kind of resembles a juvenile daring jumping spider Phiddipus audax. They all seem to be happy hunting ants and aphids in the milkweed ecosystem.

That's all for now, more spiders soon and thanks for looking :-)



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As far as I remember, this jumping spider carries its eggs on itself, if this is the spider that I saw, it also jumped and held its front limbs in the same way. I took some photos, they show a lot of little spiders sitting on it.

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Looks like a wolf spider, they do that live young carrying behavior. They do jump as well. I've only sern them carrying their babies on their backs a few times and sadly I didnt have a macro lens with me at the time. It would be awesome to get a macro shot of all those tiny spiders.

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Amazing creatures of nature, yes. It is very interesting to observe this and study this nature.

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semua jenis laba-laba yang anda tampilkan,macor nya sangat detil..

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The longer you stare into the weeds the more spiders you will eventually see.

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spiders perch on flowers, can display a very good beauty, thank you friends for sharing

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Its nice when they hold still long enough for a photo.

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Oh wow! love the details and colors. love the little eyes.
Scary and fascinating at the same time 😃

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The jumping spiders hardly seem like a spider with their compact body and ant like movements. They are smart too and can figure out obstacle courses to get to food.

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All photographs are awesome!! Loved the details in each of your pictures 👍🏻👍🏻

My favourite would be this one

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It look so adorable 😁

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It was quite the poser in that one. They often jump on the camera when i'm trying to take a picture.

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