Green Lynx Spider, Newcastle, Texas
Here's a fat (probably full of eggs) Green Lynx spider soon after capturing a variety of Leaf Cutter Bee. Here we were doing a bit of "blue sky" bug hunting on Big Sandy Road in Newcastle by driving along very slowly in my jeep (top off) looking for wisps of web on small sunflowers catching sunlight. Many times the spiders that generate the web aren't visible because they often hide on the back side of blossoms. This is the case here... no spider in sight, just a bit of web on the yellow petals, but serious spider "action" happening behind the blossom. Unlike some Leaf Cutter Bees I've photographed where pollen has just stuck to the body, this unlucky specimen has loaded pollen "baskets", and with its blossom browsing having come to an abrupt end... won't be accumulating any more.
Taken with a Nikon D60, Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens focused at infinity, with a Nikon 4T close-up lens on the 85mm. Lighting was provided by the camera pop-up flash bounced off foil covered reflector cards of a home-made macro lighting bracket.
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Green Lynx Spider, Newcastle, Texas
Here's a fat (probably full of eggs) Green Lynx spider soon after capturing a variety of Leaf Cutter Bee. Here we were doing a bit of "blue sky" bug hunting on Big Sandy Road in Newcastle by driving along very slowly in my jeep (top off) looking for wisps of web on small sunflowers catching sunlight. Many times the spiders that generate the web aren't visible because they often hide on the back side of blossoms. This is the case here... no spider in sight, just a bit of web on the yellow petals, but serious spider "action" happening behind the blossom. Unlike some Leaf Cutter Bees I've photographed where pollen has just stuck to the body, this unlucky specimen has loaded pollen "baskets", and with its blossom browsing having come to an abrupt end... won't be accumulating any more.
Taken with a Nikon D60, Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens focused at infinity, with a Nikon 4T close-up lens on the 85mm. Lighting was provided by the camera pop-up flash bounced off foil covered reflector cards of a home-made macro lighting bracket.
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