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June 9th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Awesome. Love your spider articles.
June 9th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Are there still no photos of Nephila kowaci? I was momentarily confused by the photo of the golden silk orb-weaver.
June 10th, 2011 at 9:45 am
the abdomen of the uloborid spider looks like the head of a cat with a black mark on its forehead and closed eyes. The little spikes are the ears of course.
June 12th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
In slide 3, “The charlatan” (Myrmarachne melanotarsa), the picture confuses the article.
The picture depicts a spider acting as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, walking amongst ants in (ostensibly) their colony.
The article explains that Myrmarachne melanotarsa lives in ant-like colonies, in order to scare off bigger spiders and prey upon their eggs – no actual ants involved.
Is the picture actually M. melanotarsa? Does it actually live with ants? Or is the picture of a myrmecophagous ant-mimicking spider, on the prowl for dinner? Or something else?
BTW, your photo currently appears as the first choice by Google images in a search for “Myrmarachne melanotarsa”, so it has repercussions if it’s incorrectly labeled, of course.