Jumping spider photography

Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

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We know spiders best as quiet, eight-legged monsters who lurk around and trap their prey with webs and venom. But 13 percent of the more than 450,000 arachnid species can aggressively stalk prey and lunge at them with a jump attack, like an eight-legged tiger, or a horrible version of Aragog’s children on steroids. Terrifying as it is, the way these spiders jump is worth studying.

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Bold Jumping Spider

Paraphidippus fartilis is a species of arachnid in the family of jumping spiders. (Source: Wikipedia, 'Paraphidippus fartilis', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphidippus_fartilis, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) Ieshua Martínez Nápoles, all rights reserved, uploaded by Ieshua Martínez Nápoles)

When you hear the word “cute,” “spider” is probably not the first word that pops into your head. But photographer Thomas Shahan is out to change all that with his incredible macro photographs of doe-eyed jumping spiders. When you know that some spiders can look this cute – are they really all that scary? A world without spiders would be a world with far more mosquitoes and flies, which carry countless diseases.

Jumping Spider-Taiwan