Reader Tony Eales in Australia sent us a “spot the. . . ” puzzle. His notes are indented:
I love the complex habitats on things as seemingly bare as tree trunks. The dark resinous rough grooved bark of Ironbark trees have many masters of camouflage. One is this dark little jumping spider.
By now you should know that jumping spiders are in the family Salticidae, and are often called “salticids”.
Can you spot it? I would call this “pretty hard.” Answer at 11 a.m. Chicago time.
I got this one.
spotted after magnifying the image. Hard one though.
Finally, one I could spot without much difficulty.
I spotted it too.
Well, actually I spotted two of them. Which is kinda disconcerting…
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Wearing shades and cowlick hair.
Thought I had it from the apparent line of eyes near middle-top, but on magnification it’s not that. Found it (one?) on the magnified image though, by the two obvious eyes.
I got lucky. The double click through to the higher resolution photo landed directly on the ebon cutie.
That is pretty good! Thanks for sharing this.
When I had the image larger, the spider was right where I began looking.
The eyes jumped right out at me.