A jumping spider
In the forests of Papua New Guinea it is thought that there are thousands of plants and animals which have never been seen by human eyes.
Recently a new kind of spider was discovered, a green jumping spider. In fact it is so new to humans that it doesn’t yet have a name. It is thought to belong to the Orthrus group of jumping spiders. There were only 4 species in this group, now we have 5.
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Coolriah // August 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm |
In spring of 2008, I saw some spiders in Canby Oregon that I could not identify. With two of the spiders, the proportions of the legs and body size of were an exact match with the black widow, only they were red-violet instead of black. Their color was monotone with no markings, they were very shiny. I found out that there are brown house spiders(poisonous but not lethal) that are closely related to black widows, but nothing about any species with a red-violet monotone coloration. I think they may be a new species, but I do not know who to contact about it. Later that summer, while catching bugs for my fish, I accidentally squished a brown spider when picking it up, and it had red guts ! I turned over more rocks and found a bunch more with red guts. Now, one may say they probably just ate a bunch of mosquitos, but these spiders build their webs under rocks, and never seem to venture out, and they live in a dry area where there are no worms in the soil. Does anybody have a clue what these little critters are?
Jessie // August 22, 2009 at 11:04 pm |
I was wondering is the spider poisonous?
lojol // August 26, 2009 at 7:05 am
No it isn’t.
Lena // July 28, 2009 at 2:54 pm |
I saw one today that looked exactly like this one in Richmond va. It was outside on my friends car, very bouncy spider, totally freaked me out. I’ve never seen a translucent one before.
lojol // July 28, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I think this little crittur is enough to freak anyone. Glad to see you survived!
Kevin George // July 9, 2009 at 8:48 pm |
Found a spider that is either the same or very similar this morning sitting on a plastic telephone post in our estate in Winterville, North Carolina. I had never seen a green spider before, so googled, and yours is the best match!
lojol // July 10, 2009 at 7:39 am
Thanks Kevin, glad to be of help.
Moebius // June 18, 2009 at 1:09 pm |
In my humble opinion this spider is more translucent than it is transparent.
It’s not so much “see through” as it allows light to pass through it. Fascinating. It has a CG look to it that is termed as SSS or “sub-surface scattering”.
lojol // June 22, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Yes, agreed, translucent is a much more appropriate term for this particular arachnid.
lojol // April 1, 2009 at 5:23 pm |
Well, the crowd is decreasing each year.
dragonlife // March 31, 2009 at 4:35 pm |
Join the crowd! LOL