One for the arachnophiles amongst us.

Web designers: tiny ‘peacock spiders’ depicted in all their glory – in pictures

When you look at these photos and consider that the spiders are just a few millimetres in size it does make all our “let’s go off to live on another planet” ideas look nuts. With treasures like this, who needs to go further?

 

They're fabulous @Tidemark . I must show them to my older daughter - she loves that kind of thing too
There's often published reports of photographic competitions, or just a contributor's photos, with incredible close ups like that of all sorts of tiny insects etc. I always enjoy looking at them.

 

They're wonderful, but I won't be showing them to my daughter as she panics on sight and OH or I have to go and remove the offending articles from bathroom, bedroom etc.

I don't know why cos she's been brought up in old houses in the countryside with all sorts of creepy crawlies inside and outside but she does, at least, know to holler rather than squish.