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Three spiders

This is the best view of the prey. I make them out to be predator, prey, and kleptoparasite. I think the big jumping spider stole the prey from the smaller guy. At times they were both feeding on it. But then the smaller guy kept wrapping the jumper and prey while the jumper was feeding. I think it eventually ended with the little guy retreating back to its webs underneath the mailbox, ceding the field. I have no idea if the amount of web wrapped around it was enough to bother the jumper.

The jumper is a male Phidippus audax. The prey was IDed on iNat as a smaller jumper, Platycryptus undatus (www.inaturalist.org/observations/30201563). The little guy is a cobweb spider, genus Parasteatoda.

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Taken in: United States / New Jersey / Borough of Highland Park (show map)

Taken on: June 7, 2019

Tags:

spider

prey

kleptoparasite

thief

Bold Jumping Spider

jumping spider

Phidippus audax

Phidippus

Salticidae

Araneae

arachnid

fauna

June

yard

Highland Park

New Jersey

Platycryptus undatus

unidentified

Parasteatoda

Theridiidae « less

Sets appears in: • Arachnids

Camera: NIKON COOLPIX P510, f/3.1, 1/100 sec, 4.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	NIKON COOLPIX P510
Aperture:	f/3.1
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	4.9mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	COOLPIX P510 V1.0
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