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黃腳虎頭蜂 Vespa velutina ;
she was captured in the web, but made it to escape after several seconds fortunately. The remains next to her was an unfortunate one.
These basically OWN the area around my boyfriend's parents' vacation house. This lil' mama was hanging out in the driveway. I literally stood back as far as I could, hit my camera's macro button, and stretched my arms forward toward the spider. Terrified? Yes, I am.
RX100 with:
52mm CarrySpeed magnetic adapter:
Huge Filter/Macro lens set (52mm):
Variable ND filter (52mm)
Almost crushed her when I went to brace myself on the fence. I suspect I've an ID for her. Phidippus audax .
Monks Hood, Aconitum columbium. Tiny spider on monks hood flower. Pentax Q w/ DA 35mm Macro Limited with K to Q adapter
There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
This picture is taken with automatic macro extension tube (65mm) and Voigtlander macro apo lanthar lens
This is the underside of a banded argiope. Here's the back. I also took some shots of this the day before when it wasn't as wet, but I didn't have my macro lens with me. It's recommended you view this large - if you dare.
Photo was taken on a Canon Rebel XT with 100mm macro lens, handheld and on-camera flash. It was a drizzly and gloomy morning, so the flash was needed. I also upped the ISO to 800.
Here's a more natural color picture of the same spider.
This spider was crawling around in its web in the parking garage of my apartment building. She's not as big as this macro makes her look. Sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro with ring flash.
A macro shot of a spider, waiting for prey. Due to beginning darkness, it was done with a remote flash.
A whole series of these guys were planted outside our beach house. Despite absolutely hating spiders, I found these to be really amazing. The core body of the spider (I'm obviously not an entomologist), looks like a masked man. Very intimidating.
This guy was just kicking it out in the rain, asked if he minded posing for a pic and he was all cool with the Halloween spirit. :)
Zebra spider (about 7mm long) taken with a reverse mounted Kinotel 8mm movie camera lens on a short extension tube.
I think s/he's smiling.....
I have caught this particular species of flower crab spider all over the Pacific North West. They come in two colours, yellow and white, both with a red stripe around the large abdomen. The yellow and white varieties are actually one and the same, the spider can change colour to yellow or white, depending on the colour of the flower it hides in. The colour change takes a couple of days. It is most effective, as the spider waits motionless, ready to spring into action when a meal shows up,
These spiders catch bees more than any other group of insects. Bees, of course, come to get nectar and do some pollinating in the process. Suddenly the spider flashes its front four legs out which they use to snare their victum. Unlike other spiders, these ones don't use silk in the feeding process; they finish with their prize, drop it, and prepare for the next one. I have seen many a bee become victum to their effective technique.
I shot this using my 55 mm Nikkor D micro lens and macro flash mounted on the end of the lens. The 55 mm is a nice focal length when using weak flashes as you can get very close to the subject, usually within a few inches, which means you can keep a very small aperture. the small aperture, often around f/45 or smaller, gives enough depth of field that often you can get all or most of your minute subject in focus.
Guys you know how it is. Rainy, dull afternoon, nothing to do except take charge of the TV Remote and flick nonchalantly through the channels, as is your male right, when in comes your beloved who tells you that she's found an incredible spider in the back garden and bets you that you can't get a decent photo of it.
With male pride at stake and testosterone coursing through my body I accompany her to the garden to view this 'beast'.
"Where is it?" asks I.
"There", says she pointing at a nearby bush.
"Surely you are mistaken",says I, "there's nothing there".
"Yes there is", says she handing me my glasses and there, under a leaf, is the smallest spider I have seen, 3mm in length from the tip of his nose to his backside - maximum!
With an all knowing smirk off she then trotted to reclaim the remote and settle down to the Wimbledon Ladies Final safe in the knowledge that I won't be troubling her for some time.
Clever woman my wife. She could have just asked for the remote - I would have given it to her, honest.