This flower is mine ! Running crab spider on potentilla. Focus stacked using zerene

This is for you Arturo :)) I thought you might still ask for some spidy shots, so here it is, I found this one accidentally during my trip down south. Pity I didn't have the 100mm with me at the time, so this is the best I could do with my zoom lens. LOL! Sorry about the blurry shot too...the wind just wouldn't stop blowing!!

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I don't know how Opo Terser manages to do what he does so well. I spent about 10 minutes on trying to get this thing to pose, this is the best I got even though I was working with almost a foot between me and the spider.

This spider was HUGE!

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A. affinis. A rare spider in Holland.

Marshall County, AL

spiderweb macro

www.exsulto.com/2021/03/nocturnal-pest.html

Explored #139 March 13th, 2009

Opisthoncus parcedentatus (Garden Jumping Spider)

This spider, or a group of similar spiders are mostly known simply as Opisthoncus sp (garden jumping spiders). Females to around 9 mm, males to 7 mm (body length). They are common on foliage in Brisbane gardens and nearby bushland. They are very pretty, with a face like a kitten. In China they are known as "pussy-cat spiders". They build silk egg sacs in leaves and under bark, often creating a retreat in a curled living leaf.

Source:sown.com.au

Taken at Mt Cotton

Shot with a Fuji X-Pro1 with the 60mm Macro

This little cutie came inside with some flowers I'd picked for a bouquet. Easily could have fit on the head of a pin. S/he strung the web between the bouquet on the coffee table and the arm of the couch. Silly thing :-)

Taken with the D FA 100mm WR Macro lens

www.fluidr.com/photos/133762009@N02

Alternative version of an earlier shot: cropped and brightened. I like the way you can still see his (or her) old beady eyes on the shed piece of cuticle that originally covered them up.

I had a run of fortunate timing in the backyard. After leaving the sex/abuse spiders, I happened to see this spider catch itself a fly.

A huntsman extending its extremeties during a moult. Spiders undergo moults several times during their life cycle until they reach sexual maturity. Some long living females such as the tarantulas will undergo annual moult.

Moulting allows spiders to grow and regenerate lost limbs.

Camera: Fuji s5600 + raynox macroscopic lens Model M-250

L'araignée caméléon :-)

Agelena labyrinthica Labyrinth spider mating ritual Nikon D70 105micro Nikkor SB910 Light bender CS6, Lightroom Topaz clarity

Another photo of our lovely friend Z, the zebra jumper

Anyone know what type of spider this is? It had a very messy web and there were a few close together. It is about 10-15mm in size I would guess.

Train hopping.

I found this spider in the garden shed. The picture was created from a focus stack of 50 photos taken with a Schneider f2.8 40mm APO lens reverse mounted and using a flash.

This hairy spider has been living in our house for a while much to the delight of my wife and kids (not). He was evicted over the weekend but not before I had a chance to take some macro shots for my spider loving flickr friends.

(You there Kristy? - getting braver?)

Don't be afraid to get up close and personal with the original size file.

This pretty red spider was hanging out under my tree. He's only about 1/4" across.

I really like this 85mm Micro lens.

But a cute one nonetheless

Dangerous spider lurking by :)

Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.7 T* + Macro Extension Tube

This jumping spider seems to be reeling in a line of spider silk it was using to try to abseil from one part of a shrub to another.

Pentax K10D + Vivitar 28/2.8 + Flash interne

Araneus diadematus