My thanks to My OBT for another Aussie themed post. I had no idea these teensy weensy, peacock spiders existed, much less that they were native to Australia. If you can bear to look at the prettiest spiders in creation, the video below features these little guys ‘dancing’ to Staying Alive by the Bee Gees [another Aussie export]:
To see some more hilarious videos of these little guys, and to learn more about them, please visit the My OBT website: https://myonebeautifulthing.com/2020/12/23/peacock-spider/
Oh, and I’m scared of spiders too, but these little guys are the exception! Enjoy. 🙂
Meeks
Meeka's Mind 
December 25th, 2020 at 3:45 am
Another wild looking creature. Love the colors!!!
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:46 am
I know! I was blown away by how really, really pretty they are. Would would ever think you could call a spider pretty?
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December 24th, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Magic. I don’t think these ones are venomous (except to insecta).
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:54 am
They are magic. 🙂 I think they’re so very small they wouldn’t be able to ‘bite’ even if they wanted to. 🙂
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December 25th, 2020 at 11:31 am
I think they’re in the same family as ‘jumping’ spiders. A new one was found in Sydney recently, and it was a beauty.
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December 26th, 2020 at 9:22 am
lol – I never thought I’d ever be happy about the discovery of a new spider!
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December 24th, 2020 at 6:05 pm
A great video, Meeks. I’m not scared of spiders, in fact I had a pet one when I was a girl. Matilda lived in the lamp for quite a while. I remember her well. I do respect that some are poisonous, of course. These ones are gorgeous. Such beauty in nature.
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December 24th, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Dear Meeka and Roberta,
Since you are not afraid of spiders, you can find even more videos of the Peacock Spider (Maratus volans) at the comment section of my special post published at https://queenslandorchid.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/do-plants-and-insects-coevolve/
From memory, there are at least seven videos there, including Maratus splendens in New South Wales and Victoria, as well as Maratus speciosus, Maratus caeruleus, Maratus avibus and Maratus pardus in Western Australia.
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:53 am
Wow…this is a whole dissertation. Fabulous work but some of the images were missing? Maybe the links were moved?
Hope you have a safe and happy Christmas SoundEagle. 🙂
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:59 am
I shall try to fix the links next year, as I have been too busy.
Meeka, I wonder why you no longer bother to visit, like and comment on any of my posts and pages for many months. What happened?
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December 26th, 2020 at 9:26 am
Hmm…I’m not getting notifications, SoundEagle. I’ll have to check my WordPress settings but I’ve noticed over the years that sometimes when people go ‘silent’ it’s because something has been reset. 😦
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December 27th, 2020 at 7:52 am
Dear Meeka,
Thank you for your clarification. Now that you have found out the cause, you can come over to catch up and visit half a dozen of my most recent posts, as I welcome your feedback. After all, I have been regularly visiting your “blog garden” and commenting on your blooming posts, and I long for your reciprocal visits and comments to bring about some cross-pollinations of our minds.
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December 27th, 2020 at 8:48 am
As my gaming friends would say – OMW [on my way] 🙂
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December 27th, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Dear Meeka,
In case there is still a glitch in the notification, I am coming over here to inform you that a bespoke reply has been composed by SoundEagle especially for you as a response to one of your comments that you recently submitted in the post at https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/misquotation-pandemic-and-disinformation-polemic-mind-pollution-by-viral-falsity/
Please enjoy! 🙂
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December 27th, 2020 at 8:13 pm
Came through without a problem. The gods of tech like me today. 🙂
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:56 am
-shudder- You’re a hell of a lot braver than me. I can’t imagine having a spider as a pet. I’ve become less of a wuss over the years, but I still don’t ‘like’ them. Well, except for these little guys. 🙂
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December 24th, 2020 at 5:39 pm
Thank you so much for the mention! I’m very glad you liked the post. Hope you’re having very happy holidays!
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December 25th, 2020 at 9:57 am
Hi Donna. I loved your post. You always manage to find the most amazing, unexpected things.
I hope you have a safe and happy holiday as well. -hugs-
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December 25th, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Thank you very much! Happy holidays! Sending love…
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December 26th, 2020 at 9:21 am
-hugs-
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December 24th, 2020 at 1:17 pm
Hilarious video! I was bitten by a spider once – the bite got infected and I ended up on antibiotics for months afterwards. My doctor said the problem was the bacteria that live in spider mandibles.
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December 25th, 2020 at 10:00 am
Gah…I take it you’re not fond of spiders then? Just excuse me while I grab the vacuum and get rid of those cobwebs…
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December 25th, 2020 at 10:01 am
p.s. Merry Christmas. 😉
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December 24th, 2020 at 11:18 am
Are they poisonous? Eeeek! I am blind, so cant see them, but spiders scare me even though I cant see them! Especially australian ones hahaha!
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December 24th, 2020 at 11:22 am
Hi Carol Anne. I don’t think they’re poisonous, or at least not to /us/. They are truly gorgeous though. I have no idea how they do it, but they raise their back bit to look like a peacock’s tail feathers…and it is beautifully coloured. Truly amazing.
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December 24th, 2020 at 11:51 am
Oh that sounds amazing 😄💖💖
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December 25th, 2020 at 10:01 am
Have a safe and happy Christmas!
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December 25th, 2020 at 10:03 am
And you Hun 😊
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