http://underwa.ter.net What's going on in the life of Cor and Julie Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:19:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://underwa.ter.net/journal/2009/01/08/mating-spiders/ http://underwa.ter.net/journal/2009/01/08/mating-spiders/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:18:24 +0000 cor http://underwa.ter.net/?p=239 I just happened to be going through some images to submit some older stuff to iStock and I noticed something I hadn’t seen before. Not when I took it, and not when I added the image to my library.  I took this photo of a spider in a web on Banda Neira, one of the spice islands in the Banda Sea where the dutch used to get nutmeg. Look and behold, on its back is another tiny spider, almost certainly a male mating with the much larger female. How cool is that!

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