Auteur: Giles Watson
Beschrijving:
(Salticidae, male, species uncertain. The following poem refers to a different species, but it describes a courtship ritual common to all jumping spiders.
Euophrys frontalis
I will court you with the semaphore
Of yellow legs and white tarsi,
Raised perpendicular in loving salute
Like a crab doing homage.
I will ruffle my red eyebrows, jerk
My palpi at you sexily,
The yellow gooseberries of our
Abdomens drawing close.
I will do it vertically on the wall,
Desperate to impress you.
Stonecrop stems and toadflax
Shade our frantic throes.
Source material: This beautiful jumping spider is one of a number with elaborate courtship rituals, and the colouration of the male in particular has clearly evolved to enhance the display. It is plentiful throughout Britain. See Theodore H. Savory, The Spiders and Allied Orders of the British Isles, London, 1945, pp. 75-76. Poem by Giles Watson, 2003.
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