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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2023 21:15:38 GMT
Today, I sat in the forest, and 3 small Spiders crawled across my leg. The first was a extremely small - no more than 1mm or 2mm in length. The second one was small, but not that small - around 4 mm in length. The second one either visited me twice or another one of its species crawled on me. I likely only encountered 2 small Spiders.
Here's a photograph I took, using a Pentax DSLR and a macro (close up) lens. You can see the scale of it's small size as I photographed it on an American Penny. This Jumping Spider is about the size of Lincoln's head on the penny: Small Jumping Spider in Southern W.Va.
There are two mistakes in the above article, as it says "females are known to consume their partner after mating, a practice unique among spiders." Of course, the Preying Mantis, a large insect, is known for doing this also. The second mistake is that it gives the smallest Spider, the Patu Digua a wrong size. According to Wikipedia, the Patu Digua "By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world, as males reach a body size of only about 0.37 mm (0.015 in) — roughly one fifth the size of the head of a pin." The Wikipedia article seems to be more accurate, as one of the small Spiders that crawled on me was 1mm or 2mm in size. The article wrongly says the Patu Digua is 2 millimeters.
Michael
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