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Willa (Menemerus semilimbatus). Betsy Mason

Jumping spiders can see as well as house cats — despite being less than 10mm long in most cases. I find this astounding, but people almost never seem as impressed as I think they should be when I tell them this. Perhaps they don’t believe it could be true. 

It is, though. Scientists have meas...


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This first ran September 24, 2015; since then I have stopped going to that coffeeshop and no longer see Larry and John, its chief scientists, and in fact I hardly remember what they looked like and the coffeeshop moved anyway. Time is an illusion, you say? not when so much stuff undeniably happens in it; it’s real and it’s coming after you.

Anyway, this all remind...


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I'm so happy to see these guys year after year, so I'm celebrating them again here on LWON.

I don't know why this came out in "verse," but here it is. I'm no poet, but I had fun regardless. And if you read it right, it really does scan!

Upon my feeder yesterday
A cowbird male did land,
Brown-headed with his body coal
At first glance not too grand.
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It’s summer, and I’ve been thinking of what poet Billy Collins called those, 


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Jumping spiders are, I think, generally agreed to be the cutest spider.

What makes an animal cute? Especially this representative of one of the most-feared animal groups, the spider?

It’s fuzzy, like a teddy bear. It has big eyes, like a baby fox. It holds its pedipalps, those little things that stick out on either side of the mouth and look like legs...


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