Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes


TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#13524
jumping spider - Maevia inclemens

jumping spider - Maevia inclemens
Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 29, 2004

More....
What a cool spider! I once met a grad student who was working on this genus. The males have two drastically different color forms. This is the black one. There is also a drab grey one. Each morph has its own courtship dance! The grad student had designed video experiments (yes, the spiders can see so well they recognized the video image) that paired the dance of one morph with the body of the other, to see how the females would react. The suspense is still killing me, too:-) The whole thing was called "M-TV" for "Maevia TV!"

 
dancing spiders
sounds like a rather interesting experiment. any guess as to the result?

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.