Mary was out doing her gardening this evening, and look who she found:
Neoscona, you think? First one I’ve seen.
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Mary was out doing her gardening this evening, and look who she found:
Neoscona, you think? First one I’ve seen.
Those are really crisp images.
Crispy treats, too.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/tarantula-trade-in-cambodia-faces-uncertain-future/11248328
Neoscona Theisi?
Comparing the abdomen to the cephalothorax, this thing looks very … Shelob-esque? Shelobic? What’s the right adjective here?
I see the two light spots on its dorsal abdomen as eye spot appearance camouflage.
The “false spine”, a target, were I its prey, as I’d either hit a major blood vessel or its heart along those lines.
Which is likely how pigment was chemically signaled, during development.
I’ll call it, after several minutes to develop pareidolia, “The Punisher Spider”. ;)
Yeah, I actually have to work at pareidolia. Oddly, seeing eyes in otherwise “perfect” camouflage is normal for me, which confounded many of my military cohorts.
@PZ, if that spider is still available, can you get UV and IR observation on its markings?
I have a suspicion, likely in long wave UV.
Is it just me or does that look like grasshopper? I wonder if that’s a form of camouflage to distract prey?