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The Darkness Comes

A Tube Web Spider. Great macro subjects, as they seem to pose for you! First real test of my new Sigma 50mm prime macro. Lit only with a small torch (in an otherwise pitch black cellar). Tube web spiders are actually originally native to the Mediterranean, but have spread throughout western Europe as the temperature has risen in recent times. They are one of the few spiders in the British Isles that can pack a bite thats strong enough to hurt a human.

 

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Uploaded on November 1, 2008
Taken on November 1, 2008