Photo Post: Brazilian Jumping Spider
Hi everyone – nice weekend? I made a couple of rather delicious discoveries that will need to be written up when I can find a moment. In the meantime, take a look at this cool jumping spider that I spotted hopping about on the roof yesterday.
Apologies to the arachnophobes out there. Hopefully it will help you to know that this is an extreme close-up. This little fellow is just 1cm across.
I know it looks a bit tarantula-esque, but fear not people – unlike the Brazilian Wandering Spider (the world’s most venomous and aggressive spider) which has a penchant for hiding in bunches of bananas, this little fellow is harmless to humans. I think it’s rather a fine looking spider, though not quite up there with the Most Beautiful Spider in the World that I spotted in Bahia last year.
OK, that’s all for now. Next post I’ll be telling you about this weekend’s tasty discovery (I promise it will be a spider-free post!).
I had never seen a “papa-moscas” this close. Nice pic!
Ooh, “papa-mosca”? What a funny name – like ‘Pope-fly’? :D
Like eat-fly.
Papa in this case is third person of papar/comer. Baby food, like those podridges in a small glass pot are called ‘papinhas’ or ‘papinhas de bebê/nenêm’.
Thanks Bruno! :) I see that Papa-Mosca has gone into the Speak Like a Brazilian word list!
Pope-fly, lol! That one is going straight to the archives. Please inform us when encountering a Rabbi fly. And never, never leave him and the Mullah fly together without supervision :-)
Hee hee! As the man says, “I have the intellectual confidence to appear stupid sometimes…” ;)
Beautiful shots, Tom!
Thanks Tracy! You should see how many shots were blurred – these little spiders don’t stay still for long! :D