oh it's nothing...just a little scratch.

Thanks Erick! (My brother in law was kind enough to bring me the biggest, most disgusting wolf spider I have EVER seen...more pics to follow)

Spider cocoon. Found in a flower pot stack. Focus stacked using zerene

D300 - Sigma 180 macro

I found this spider in the garden shed. The picture was created from a focus stack of 75 photos taken with a Schneider f2.8 40mm APO lens reverse mounted and using a flash.

A European Cross Spider set up home on my deck and I managed to get a this shot despite the wind which was pushing the web around. The blue/white background is the curtains behind the patio doors.

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Arachtober 29

My lovely neighbour didn't believe he was cute....so I had to crop it in for her...now she agrees! ;-)

On EXPLORE 09.10.2011 Fluidr #195

Giornata di pioggia...sulla foglia di un albero noto qualcosa che abbiamo visto in molti documentari... la caccia e la lotta per la sopravvivenza...

due piccoli protagonisti...un ragno e un curculionide...quando ho iniziato a scattare il dramma era già iniziato...CONTINUA...

A spider hanging around in my garden

Encontrada en el humedal del rio Lluta, Arica, Chile

I was looking at this strange spider and didn't notice it was the egg sack that made it look strange till I got real close.

Kind of looks like a bag of balloons just upside down ... After further review ... it looks like a bag of grapes! :)

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2013 : week 22

It's a small greenhouse, and this is quite a large spider. We're working on co-existing in a confined space.

He waits, that's what he does.

This weekend for the first time I found a jumping spider (Sitticus pubescens) in the house. Right in front of where I'm typing now. This pic it's actually on my keyboard (as you can probably tell). It would not stay still though, much more active than the ones I've found outside!

I knew in the Autumn you get more spiders in the house but I didn't know I'd find one of these. Anyone else have them in the house?

Right got to start sorting my stuff for Norway!

PS before anybody asks I didn't bring it into the house!

Theridion hannoniae (thanks Gerdt)

So I've been stuck indoors for a number of days now, but I've been itching to get out with my macro gear. I've checked this spot a few times in the hope of finding some kind of life, but had pretty much given up. In my mother-in-law's building there is a central shaft that brings some light to the inside walls of the apartments. My MIL lives on the ground floor of this shaft, so she has a small "inner yard" area she uses to house a dryer and hang clothes etc. (her father built the building, so I guess she got first dibs). Anyway this small area is exposed to the sky, so I guess you could call it "outdoors."

This was where I figured I had the most chance of finding something living (the rest of the apartment is spotlessly clean). It took some searching but eventually I found it. I spotted this small bump on the inside bend of some copper piping. I shone my little torch on it and could make out what I thought could be legs, so it was time to get the macro lens out for a closer look. Sure enough, I revealed this little spider.

This made me happy, even though it didn't play nicely and hid away from my flash (I could only get a rear end shot unless I wanted to start prodding it). You see, this is a spider and, to the best of my knowledge, all spiders are predators. This means there must be other kinds of life in this environment. Maybe the occasional fly makes it's way down here (although i suspect this must be a rare occurrence - the shaft is pretty deep), but there must be other "things" that live here more permanently in this unnatural mini-ecosystem. Not quite sure what they are likely to be yet, it seems a pretty dry, stark habitat to me, but I'll keep looking.

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See first comment for some images of this area.

A crab spider finishing of one of the first flies of spring.

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Usually I scale down my images, but this one is definitely best viewed large. This is a wolf spider that I caught in my apartment. Notice the lone baby spider riding on her back.

scène de crime

01 July #310

These two pictures post in reverse sequence.

Attacking position, perhaps, after provoked by….ME!!! A clear message that either one of us have to leave or face a tough consequence. Then I said goodbye and took off in a hurry. And never shoot spiders ever again.

I thought the hand waving sign means ‘friendly’ on this planet, but apparently not to some!!

This fellow is about the size of a pinky nail (including legs). I won't get close in the first place if it was bigger.

The picture below shown the normal pose in calm mode (count the legs in both shots, to be precise)

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I took this afternoon off from work and spent an hour out back hunting beasties. Found this common garden spider and all his eyes. Of course I can get into this position with my two legs ;)