Heavy Jumping Spider
Hyllus sp.Singapore, March 2013
No spider gallery would be complete without the most adorable of the bunch: the jumping spiders. With their large eyes, crazy colors, and fantastic flamenco moves, these spiders probably come the closest to winning over stubborn spider-haters.
The spider above has little eyebrows. He's among the larger jumping spiders -- at a whole half-inch across -- and has a big personality. "As I go very close to these jumping spiders, they tend to jump onto my lens," Bay said.
The spider to the right (Cosmophasis sp., Indonesia), which has quite the unibrow, looks like a Sesame Street character -- an iridescent, eight-legged version of Bert. And the spider below (Siler sp., Singapore) is a peacock jumping spider, among the most beautiful and colorful of this already dazzling crew.
Photos copyright Nicky Bay.