Jumping Spider vs. Paparazzi カメラに飛びつくネコハエトリ♂

Those were adult male jumping spiders (Carrhotus xanthogramma, family Salticidae). They looked curious and often leaped on my up-close lens. Early-May 2009 in Japan.
Soundtrack (audioswapped): "Paparazzi" by Suzy Callahan.

通常レンズのスーパーマクロモードで接写する場合、レンズを近付け過ぎると好奇心旺盛で恐れを知らぬハエトリグモは跳び付いて来ることが多々あります。もしかするとレンズ­に映った鏡像に反応しているのかもしれない。繰り返しこれをやられるとレンズが糸まみれになってしまいます。ちなみにマクロレンズを装着すれば焦点距離が遠くても済むので­、撮影がクモの行動に干渉する恐れは減ると思います。

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• jumping
• spider
• leap
• dragline
• ネコハエトリ
• ハエトリグモ科
• 跳躍
• 懸垂下降

[PhidippusAudax]

0:20 reminds me of the first time I saw a jumping spider (and didn't know what it was). It was on my piano stool and I was going to squash this big monster with lots of tissue, but it raised its head and looked at me, and I thought 'this is the spider from hell... a devil spider...' and screamed like crazy, it scared me that much. no one in my family believed me that a spider could raise its head and look at you with big eyes

[sigma1920]

hey, how r u?

thx for a nice story. :)

their frontal big eyes sometimes seem to me like a pair of huge nostrils rather than eyes somehow. lol

[arachneman]

I was going to kill one too. Just like you I was astonished when it looked at me. I even felt ashamed. I picked it up and put it in a safer place.

[sigma1920]

good job! :)

[deityofanimee]

Tarantino spider!!