Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This is a wonderful and colorful jumping spider. Most kids in Singapore know this as the fighting spider. They catch them and then put two or more in a box and watch them do whatever they do. This appears to be a male because of the large palps (or palpi?).

Another view

These are the red ants that attacked me yesterday. Or rather, they probably thought I attacked them yesterday

A Simpoh flower

and another

This butterfly is caught in a spider web. The spider was absent so I'll check tomorrow to see if I can identify her

another view of the trapped butterfly

C. Frank Starmer

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