Aliens have landed! Eerie close-up photos of JUMPING spiders look like creatures from another planet with huge bulging eyes

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These close-up shots of jumping spiders may make you think twice before you reach for that glass and coaster.

These eerily intimate shots, largely of the arachnid's psychedelic eyes, make them look more like an alien species than a creature here on earth.

Photographer Javier Rupérez used macro-photography techniques to create the other-worldly images of the spiders in his home town of Almáchar, Spain.

The jumping spider family makes up 13 per cent of all spider species and has some of the best vision among all invertebrates, as well as the ability to jump while hunting or to evade threats.

These eery close-up shots of jumping spiders make the arachnids look like alien creatures from a sci-fi movie than insects

Photographer Javier Rupérez used macro-photography techniques to create the other-worldly images of the spiders

The jumping spider family, which makes up 13 per cent of all arachnid species, has some of the best vision among all invertebrates

Mr Rupérez, 56, spent hours taking hundreds of pictures of the spiders in order to create the macro images, with the subsequent computer processing on the pictures often taking several days.

He said: 'Jumping spiders are generally recognised by their eye pattern. All jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes.

'The eyes of the spiders are particularly impressive when viewed from very close. Viewed so closely, they look like beings from another planet.'

Mr Rupérez's unique pictures allowed him to get up close to the creatures, creating pictures that will be the stuff of nightmares for arachnophobes. 

In order to create the impressive effects in his images, Mr Rupérez took hundreds of photos, moving the camera a microscopically short distance each time, before processing the images with computer software.

The jumping spiders, photographed in the Spanish town of Almáchar, also have the ability to jump while hunting or to evade threats

Mr Rupérez, 56, spent hours taking hundreds of pictures of the spiders in order to create the spectacular (and often terrifying) images

'The eyes of the spiders are particularly impressive when viewed from very close,' said Mr Rupérez

Mr Rupérez's unique pictures allowed him to get up close to the creatures, creating nightmarish images 

In order to create the impressive effects in his images, Mr Rupérez took hundreds of photos, moving the camera a microscopically short distance each time

'It was the most impressive thing I had ever seen,' said Mr Rupérez. 'Extreme macro work is very meticulous and complicated'

He said: 'When I saw the first photograph of the eyes of a spider jumping at a high magnification, I knew that I should devote myself to doing extreme macro photography. 

'It was the most impressive thing I had ever seen. Extreme macro work is very meticulous and complicated. 

'I just concentrate on doing a good job and I try to get photographs that are shocking to everyone who looks at them.'