It’s the spiders who jump, not the poop. You knew that. But have you ever pondered their poop? Jumping spiders are little guys — the species in the photo above is about 1 cm long (0.39 inches). We mostly admire them for their amazing eyes . . .
. . . and for their courtship displays (and sounds as at 0:40 in the video). Don’t miss the previously undescribed peacock spider “sparklemuffin” at 3:05 and the info about how (much larger) females handle the bad dancers at 4:02!
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We usually don’t think about jumping spider poop, which is easy to overlook as it is also small. Sean McCann, a biologist and amateur photographer who studies arthropods and birds, posted a jumping spider poop photo on Twitter with an unusual question. Here is the answer to a question most of us never thought to ask. Also note the little spider dingleberry getting ready to drop off.
A poop story was apt today. I wanted to avoid a text-intense Bucket due to writing on my MacPoop pro beCause my newer laptop had a software Crash (😢).
here’s a recap of the maCpoop origin story
Chispa nipped the c key tile off my MacBook in a nano-second as he hopped across me. Then he, apparently, pooped into the open keyboard gap (I infer this as I didn’t see that happen). Months later after c stopped working entirely, the Apple tech guy reported his findings. He decided to label what he saw under the keyboard “liquid spill.” I protested that I’d never spilled anything and the parrot took the c tile off. The tech guy said AHA it looked just like bird poop but he couldn’t figure out how that would happen. We now have High Honors at Apple Tech for Novel Disaster, but the MacPoop costs $850 to repair sans warranty against future problems and the damage means it might crap out anytime (😉). So I bought a new MacBook Pro and saved the MacPoop as backup. The other day the screen went black on the new laptop and now only shows a file icon labelled with a question mark. pfffffff
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Spider poop was my topic today but I hope you have other nature news to share in the comments. I’m probably still sleeping when this publishes and will show up later.