Two faced spider!

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flossiepip
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Two faced spider!

Postby flossiepip » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:07 pm

Don't often see this one, usually hidden among the leaves and only about 4/5mm in size but this one was hanging from a fence wire so was nice and accessible to photograph in the dark of the night and this one showed an interesting face on its abdomen that I've not seen before! A female Bird dropping spider, I would guess that the face
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is to scare predators, other wise it relies on the fact that it looks like bird poo!
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