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She keeps her front two legs raised to look like mandibles or antenna. Jumping spiders are amazing.

Which one is your favorite?

Some spiders can engineer some pretty amazing webs! 🕸️

Meet the Australian ballista spider. This arachnid diligently spends up to four hours crafting a web trap designed to catch one type of prey: the green tree ant. When the green tree ant triggers the trap by biting, it’s rapidly thrown upward into the spider’s main web. Some scientists think this might be the first spider’s web engineered to catch one kind of prey!

Still no idea why she does this sometimes. Such a silly spood.

I personally make these crystal spiders using stainless steel wire I both weld and solder into a durable and pose-able armature and all glass/crystal beads (no plastic or acrylic).

This is not my video, and hopefully it’s ok sharing an instagram link, but I just came across this and it was really cool! It’s a pet huntsman spider building her cave in sand, and building her trap door! I’ve never seen anything like this before, and according to the instagram author, it’s a rare sight!

So I thought you all might enjoy it!

Does anyone know if they are able to recognise their own reflection or something like that? She/he looked very curious