The People of LWON and their splendid guests have several ongoing preoccupations, and rather than have you try to mentally collate them over the years, we thought we’d devote a week to each preoccupation. That way they’ll all be in one place. This week is devoted to redux posts on loving bugs.
“Oh my god is this complexity ever going to end?” thought zoologist Wayne Maddison in 1974, when he first witnessed the elaborate courtship dance of the male jumping spider. The answer, as Maddison and our guest poster Anne Casselman discovered, is no. No, it is not. Read the skinny on the Salticidae shimmy here.