>> ^ant:

Dang, kill it with fire! Too big! Almost like a facehugger on the camera!


I agree, all spiders deserve not but death. I'll kill anyone who disagrees.

*bugs (technically, insects).

That's pretty much how I surf the web except I jump. I would like to see a jumping spider, crickets/grasshoppers, etc. too.

That fly should had gone to Videosift.com! What a lame fly.

I think you MAY be thinking of the mayfly, Retro. Me so punny.

At first glance I was inclined to agree with xxovercastxx, considering the positioning of the wings (something to consider though, they do not always have the appearance of being near-perfectly parallel to the body, sometimes sticking out at acute angles away from the point of attachment/thorax, which sorta looks like the one in the vid and may be easy to confuse with the dragon fly's wing arrangement when viewed from certain angles), BUT there are a couple of very un-dragonfly-like features here as well.

Most species of dragon flies have their compound eyes touching/fused at the top of the head, looking like one cohesive structure, while mayflies' eyes are placed more on the sides of the head and protrude outwards more, with a noticeable gap of forehead space in between them. Also, the base of the bottom pair of wings seems too skinny to be a dragon fly, where usually the bottom wings remain much broader for much longer, compared to the top pair as you get closer to thorax before finally tapering down to the connection point, though there may be exceptions in morphology from species to species.

I'm no entomologist though, just someone who enjoys watching these buggers go about their business (they're surprisingly tolerant of people and seem quite intelligent for insects, I'd say jumping spiders, Phidippus Audax specifically, are the only creepy crawlies around here that appear to be any smarter, more charming, gregarious than dragon/damsel flies).

I'm too torn either way to definitively call it. I did enjoy speculating about it quite needlessly though. Yay insomnia and Videosift!!

.... and strangely, I his. Devilry is afoot.>> ^lovelynotes:

This opponent knows my every MOVE...

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by mintbbb.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-Mating-Ritual-With-Super-Audio

It's a mating ritual. The male (the one drumming) is using the vibrations to make sure the female knows exactly what's going on, so he doesn't get eaten.

You can read all about it at the video you've duped:

http://videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-Mating-Ritual-With-Super-Audio

I can't call *dupeof but I'm sure someone else can. It's a great vid though, fascinating behavior from a little spider.

>> ^ForgedReality:

That's pretty cool. I used to like these spiders when I was a kid. Nothing like this guy does though.


Jumping spiders are cool.

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*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-Mating-Ritual-With-Super-Audio

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-vs-Bee

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um, dupe. I don't know how the Sift dupe detector missed this.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jumping-Spider-vs-Bee

I like spiders, especially jumping spiders. They're cute in their own special creepy way.