Photo: Jurgen Otto
This is a kind of jumping spider, and it’s only about 5mm in size. The males have a colorful pattern on flaps that extend from their abdomen during breeding/mating. In addition to this, they raise their back pair of legs and dance from side to side to win over their plain brown females.
Only found in Australia, they were classified as species Maratus volans because people originally thought the flap was for gliding after jumping. Wiki
Flux
Heh thats cool. When I look at that colored pattern on its lifting up, I swear i see a sort of abstract spider picture.
Miss Cellania
Oh yes, pretty to look at, as long as its a picture. If a real one jumped at me, I wouldn’t take the time to admire it!
Rich T
He reminds me of the time Homer glud a wig to George Bush’s head when they had that big neighbor feud going.
Fran
JUMPING????? That sucker JUMPS? Eeeek. I’m staying away from Australia.
KIDELVIS
We got the funk,gotta have the funkow! Where’s Bootsy and the rest of P-Funk?
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