My next question is how did they even discover this crazy small spider? Well, according to an arachnologist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, Jeremy Miller, \u00a0\u201cthe best way to find these tiny spiders is to look for their webs”. He goes on to mention that you can dust the area with corn starch as the starch will stick to the tiny spider web filaments making it much easier to notice. How about that? We now have a tactic for identifying minature spider webs. Now don’t go spending all of your free time looking for miniature spiders such as the\u00a0Mysmena wawuensis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The newly discovered spider,\u00a0Mysmena wawuensis,\u00a0is so incredibly new that these tiny spiders don’t even have a common name yet. Just how new are they? Well, the journal describing this spider species (and another that was found with them) was published May 21, 2013. Yeah, that is about 3 weeks ago. I told you they were newly discovered. Cool Facts About The\u00a0Mysmena wawuensis This particular spider and it’s friend, Trogloneta yuensis,\u00a0were discovered in the\u00a0Sichuan and Chongqing regions of China. These wonderful spiders tend to live in the leaf litter and\/or in caves. Interestingly enough, they were actually discovered near the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,3897,413,3300,4025,3898,511],"yoast_head":"\n