Hi,
I managed to get nice and close for this shot on this spider which I shot 2 days ago, quite lucky as these are the most skittish and smallest of the species I have found so far, they are about 3-4mm long. This jumping spider was the first species of peacock jumping spider recorded back in 1957 by R.A Dunn. Here is a small quote from the article he wrote "Surely some heathen god must have chuckled as, stealing the brilliance of ruby and sapphire, he clad that tiny form!". It would be many decades before other species would be found, small numbers were found in 1990's before a large number of new species were found from 2005 onwards, there are currently over 90 named species.
I managed to get nice and close for this shot on this spider which I shot 2 days ago, quite lucky as these are the most skittish and smallest of the species I have found so far, they are about 3-4mm long. This jumping spider was the first species of peacock jumping spider recorded back in 1957 by R.A Dunn. Here is a small quote from the article he wrote "Surely some heathen god must have chuckled as, stealing the brilliance of ruby and sapphire, he clad that tiny form!". It would be many decades before other species would be found, small numbers were found in 1990's before a large number of new species were found from 2005 onwards, there are currently over 90 named species.
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