Tourists in Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area photographed "human-faced spiders"

Haidu News (reporter Lin Yangdong Mao Chaoqing) Recently, when Ms. Huang of Fuzhou was playing in the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area, she found a very special spider on a dilapidated wooden door, and the pattern on its head, chest and abdomen resembled a human facial organ.

The reporter saw that this spider is gray, eight feet and other parts of the black spots, the picture zoomed in, especially the abdomen, those black spots combined with adult eyes, nose and mouth, etc., there are also on the head and chest, and the human face is very similar (such as the right picture).

According to relevant experts, this spider is commonly known as "human face spider", widely distributed in East Asia, China's Hebei, Shandong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Henan and other places have been found, the length from a few millimeters to more than ten millimeters, face patterns are also diverse, some facial features are very beautiful, some are ugly. The patterns are so varied, experts say, may be related to the nutrients of the foods they eat by chance.

Experts disagree on the origin of the "human-faced spider.". Some experts believe that the "human-faced spider" may be a kind of "albino" phenomenon of spiders, which is relatively rare. Some experts believe that the "human-faced spider" is a variant of the common spider.

Edited by Li Shuai