This spider is quite unusual looking… I think this is called biomimicry. A local friend tells us they are quite common in the mountains above our town. And here is a caterpillar on our avocado tree:
2 Comments:
- At November 24, 2008 3:34 PM, Anonymous said…
biomimicry is a word derived from bios, meaning “life,” and mimesis, meaning “to imitate” refers to the study of nature’s successful design solutions and the imitation of these designs and processes to solve human problems its not a spider…
- At November 24, 2008 5:55 PM, Rosana Hart said…
Thanks, I stand corrected.