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I found this lovely spider four days ago. I thought she would die overnight, as she had lost two legs on the right side of her body. She has been our "house guest" four days now! I made a little habitat for her within a small kiwi fruit box that has holes in the lid and the bottom. It is lined with bits of plants from my garden. Now she is on my desk where I can see her move around, spinning silk wherever she moves. I offered her a small house spider, but she didn't seem interested. Tomorrow it will be warn outside, so maybe I'll be able to catch a moth or fly to offer her.
This is only the 2nd time I've seen one of these cool spiders. It was over shallow water off the side of a pier so I could only get one side of it. That is a leaf that was caught in the web.
Female Heptagonal Orbweaver (Gea heptagon)
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Leucauge argyrobapta, very small, body about 5 mm long. Identified in bugguide. I don't know what the feathery appendages on the largest pair of legs are (visible when viewed large.). In my back yard, Austin.
Orb-weaver spiders or araneids are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. "Orb" was previously used in English to mean "circular", hence the English name of the group. Araneids have eight similar eyes, hairy or spiny legs, and no stridulating organs.
This is a picture of a Araneus marmoreus at the Daniels Area of Patapsco Valley State Park in Howard County, Maryland.
Eriophora ravilla
Had my first spider presentation of the season today. With the way things were setup, I didn't have an easy view of my slideshow notes. Good thing I have done variations of this presentation enough times now, I can fake it pretty well. This version was for a local nature photography group so I added some new slides and info about equipment and techniques. It went great.
I found this lovely spider four days ago. I thought she would die overnight, as she had lost two legs on the right side of her body. She has been our "house guest" four days now! I made a little habitat for her within a small kiwi fruit box that has holes in the lid and the bottom. It is lined with bits of plants from my garden. Now she is on my desk where I can see her move around, spinning silk wherever she moves. I offered her a small house spider, but she didn't seem interested. Tomorrow it will be warn outside, so maybe I'll be able to catch a moth or fly to offer her.
Photo from Tambopata Research Centre, Peru.
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Giant lichen orbweaver spider
Scenic State Park, Big Fork, Minnesota, USA
Saw this wonderfully ugly spider in a huge web at the ranger station.
Catching its lunch of dragon fly.
This image was processed by first passing the raw file through DxO PureRAW 4 for noise reduction and lens correction purposes, before importing the resulting DNG file into Capture One Pro for further editing / processing.
Golfo Dulce, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Southern Pacific Lowlands
Spiny orbweaver [Micrathena sexspinosa]
ARACHNIDA > ARANEAE > Araneidae
I often get too hung up on taking and editing the perfect picture and spend too much time on a single subject instead of enjoying the process. I've been trying to change that,
one way has been to spend less time on each subject in the field (largely out of respect for the animal, but also to help me not get as fixated). This has resulted in some interesting results. I've taken significantly fewer photos when out, but the photos I have taken have largely had better focus, were exposed better and required less editing time. This however, is not one of those. This is a picture of a spider, because instead of a perfect picture this spider simply made me happy and I wanted to document it. Someday I'll snap that perfect picture, but until then I'll try to enjoy the adventures and the learning.
These orbweaver spiderlings are possibly the European Garden Spider (aka Cross Orbweaver), Araneus diadematus. (Salem, MA)