Cheritra freja, known as the common imperial, is a small lycaenid butterfly distributed in South Asia, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and Indonesia. That's a gorgeous butterfly with flowing tails. It was heartbreaking to find this butterfly with somewhat damaged and pallid wings. Maybe it's an old butterfly with not much longer to live. Life is too brief; everyone will grow old eventually.

I found another jumper spider in the bushes, which seems to be Phintella bifurcilinea ((Bösenberg & Strand, 1906), a species of jumping spider belonging to the genus Phintella. If a male jumper has a dark head with white spots, I assume it is a female.

I spotted the jumping spider in the bushes while walking this afternoon. What a sweet little jumper with bulging eyes. The jumper didn't give me a chance to shoot while crawling on a leaf because it suddenly jumped on my wrist. Instead of trying to escape, it just calmly stayed on my wrist. It seemed like the jumper wanted to be spoiled. Yup, I could see that in its sparkling eyes. It looked happier than ever.

So far, I have spotted many kinds of jumping spiders. But this one differs from the others. The Rhene jumping spider exhibits a rather strange behavior. As you know, spiders do not have hands. However, one of its legs (either the right or left) always lifted higher. No doubt, that's the style of an orator or propagandist that I always see on TV, with his hand often raised when he is on the podium. Oh my! I feel as though I have just witnessed a cute comrade giving a speech in the middle of the crowd!

A mushroom walk we did last Sunday still left my legs feeling sore. I should have done some warm-up and stretching first to be more prepared for the challenging journey through steep forest terrain, plus the hot weather reaching 34°C. The rain a few days earlier did not immediately change the temperature to cool, and we found fewer mushrooms than we did during the rainy season from August to early January.

I spotted another female heavy jumper (Hyllus diardi) a few days ago on a dry twig. I'm sure it is a female juvenile jumper. I am not just guessing, because as far as I know, adult females have thick hair. This one does not yet have thick hair; moreover, it is smaller than most adult heavy jumpers. I have no idea how long it takes for a juvenile heavy jumper to mature. What is certain is that I have seen many spiders of this type near the east coast of Lhokseumawe.