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Picaflor
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fighting spiders

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I was not ready for this situation, so the quality isn't perfectly. The jump spider try to steel the insect.....
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Wow! What happened next?

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What happened next?
The green spider was the winner. She goes to his ground (house?), interesting is, the jumping spider tries in his ground a twice time to steal. Image
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Interesting images! I have read that jumping spiders will kill and eat other spiders. Maybe one of the reasons that I like them so much and give them free run of my home. :)

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I once photographed a jumping spider that jumped into a web and killed the owner. A few days later I found what may have been the same jumping spider dead and eaten by a spider in another web:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... raphs-240/

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Lou Jost wrote:I once photographed a jumping spider that jumped into a web and killed the owner. A few days later I found what may have been the same jumping spider dead and eaten by a spider in another web:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... raphs-240/
A dog eat dog or might we say, "a spider eat spider" world out there. :)

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Post by christerb »

Interesting pics. Salticidae from the genus Portia appear to be quite good at hunting web-buillding spiders.

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Toilets can be interesting. From a recent trip
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u ... 0703_1.jpg
and, sadly unrecorded, the next location had a long-drop facility installed a respectable distance from the camp, with a wooden box construction placed over it.
BATS found it a convenient dark place to rest. Fine, except that on hearing someone approaching, they would fly out of the hole and up, at the unsuspecting visitor, generally eliciting a rather audible response.
Those who experienced it early on arrival in camp, were entertained by watching those heading off to use said facility, and listening. :twisted:
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Post by Lou Jost »

That does sound entertaining. Rainforest bathrooms around here are the preferred habitat for giant foot-long amblypygids, which also produce some entertainment:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/56 ... e71912.jpg

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