Sighting and photos (c) ben_revell.
Field Notes - not expecting to see this jumping spider in the pebbles of a river bank. 1cm long at most
Field Notes - small spider approx 5mm in length
Nice sunny morning, saw about a dozen males but only one female
Sighting and photos (c) ben_hill.
Field Notes - Black and yellow ‘bush bee’ as i know it or Hoverfly i think is its correct name. Buzzing around strawberry and spring onion flowers. Seems to like the spring onion the best.
Very tiny spider <1mm
Jumps; suspect Maratus spp. but unsure.
Photo taken with magnifying attachment on iPhone 8 device
Field Notes - A bright male peacock spider. There was also a female nwarby and i took a video of him dancing. Unfortunateky cant submit video!
in woodland and gully rainforest on sandstone
Grevillia NSW AU
..not dancing...pursuing female without success
male 4mm
Maratus ottoi Baehr & Whyte 2016
Canungra QLD AU
see:
Otto, J. C. and D. E. Hill. 2017. Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 2. Peckhamia 148.2: 1-23.
page 5
Temporarily caught in the web of another spider into which it jumped. The web spider was smaller and came rushing over before being eyeballed by the jumping-spider and making a quick turn-around.
Sighting and photos (c) janr.
Field Notes - 8mm TL, noticed first on pipe work, the spider was busy on the brick wall. it was waving its legs about so I wondered if there was a female close by that I didn't notice.
Sighting and photos (c) nomadcam.
Field Notes - tiny jumping spider. was too excited to note vital sizes... going by the 3mm rope... it'd be about 5mm in body length.
Sighting and photos (c) ben_revell.
Sighting and photos (c) entropyandroar.
Field Notes - Horned Owl peacock spider
Peacock spider Maratus proszynskii, Peter Murrell Reserve, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania, September 2018
Sighting and photos (c) entropyandroar.
Field Notes - All coloured up and ready for the ladies.
5mm TL
Sighting and photos (c) entropyandroar.
Field Notes - Picked up not 1 but 2 this afternoon!
both boys, no girls
Sighting and photos (c) entropyandroar.
Field Notes - awwww yeah!
literally on the type locality