I watched this jumping spider (possibly Platycryptus undatus or Metcyrba taeniola) stalk and kill this moth in the outdoor shower today while I washed my hair. The spider is larger than most of the other jumping spiders I've seen around here; it was perhaps half an inch long. It jumped right on the moth's head as the moth was clinging to the rock wall of the shower; by the time I'd rinsed and dried enough to run for the camera, the moth had been flipped over by the spider, as seen in these photos.
If you click to enlarge these two second photos, you will see a drop on the spider's back. Not sure if that's a drop of water from the shower or some bizarre spidery thing about which I know nothing.
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