Macro Photography

The upside down jumping spider in the picture below is as big as a stud on a pair of Levi’s. Tiny. And  only 5,500  have been discovered to date.There’s probably one just a few feet from you right now. But don’t panic. They like small prey, and eat tinier aphids, minute flies ands grasshoppers and mosquitoes and midges. So we can tip our hat to them, if we have one.

They make our world better. I never gave them a second glance, mainly because I walked right past those big dewy eyes without seeing them.

Now I know, courtesy of my friend Thelma, who pays attention to the little things, that they form an essential part of my world.

Without them I’d have a lot more mozzie bites, and there would be a lot of irritating stuff buzzing around my head.

Ever noticed in polluted areas, near polluted rivers, how many more mozzies and flies there are? That’s because the good guys, like jumping spiders, got killed by chemicals, effluent and other human junk.

So, looking at the tiny wild things, and what they do, makes sense – it helps us undertand the bigger picture – something I was ignoring for too long.

Join us on our journey, as we show how all is connected, from the tiniest to the biggest, and how we matter zero in the grand scheme of things, unless we’re helpoing them to help us keep our world, even our neighbourhood,filled with tiny wild good guys.

Let us know about the tiny wild things near you, and send us a pic, of any quality, and we’ll try and ID it for you.

The great thing about this journey is, we can all do it – we don’t have to live on the African savanna, or in the Rockies. We can do it by watching the flower pot on the ledge of our apartment window.

Next time, we’re talking about which is heaviest. Insects, or elephants.

Not as easy as you think. Happy tiny adventuring!