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Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

My son had this incredibly bright flashlight, and one evening he shined it out into the yard and claimed that all the little sparkles we were seeing in the grass were spiders looking back at us. I disagreed and told him they were reflections from dew drops. To prove his point, we agreed on a particularly bright sparkle, and approached it keeping the light on it. Sure enough, there was a spider sitting there looking back up at us. We then proceeded to find about a dozen more. I was totally surprised that every one we honed in on turned out to be another spider.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like wolf spiders. They are actually good mammas and they haul their 'lings on their backs until they are old enough to disperse.

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