Spider Photos
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This is a Banana Spider but I call him "Poodle Spider" because of the poodle like tufts of hair on his legs!
I bought the plant last year at a market, put it in the shade house and this year 4 flowers : ))
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Nature's insect control. Some may find them creepy, but I think they are pretty neat. This is a Golden silk orb-weaver. You can see the "gold" in her web.
The Thomisidae, or Crab spiders, are the masters of ambush and disguise. Some species can change their color to blend in with the flowers they are sitting on. This large family includes 38 genera in South Africa alone and occurs on all continents except Antarctica. The body on this one is about 4mm across and the legs 10mm long.
Quite the stabilimentum here...
"A stabilimentum (plural: stabilimenta), also known as a web decoration, is a conspicuous silk structure included in the webs of some species of orb-web spider. Its function is a subject of debate...There is much controversy surrounding the function of these structures, and it is likely that different species use them for different purposes....It has been suggested that stabilimenta could provide protection to the spider by either camouflaging it (by breaking up its outline), or making it appear larger (by extending its outline)...make the web visible and therefore animals such as birds are less likely to damage the spider's web...The other dominating hypothesis is that web decorations attract prey by reflecting ultraviolet light...."
The talents seem to be the cross spiders. I saw one of them in the centre of a web. They create beautiful and very stable webs. Taken with Zeiss Makro Planar 2/50 ZE.
A jumping spider. Captured using reverse lens macro technique with Nikon 50mm 1.8G lens, manual focus, built-in flash.
I don't necessarily like spiders, but this little one was smaller than my pinky fingernail and was quite cute!
Had a go at trying for a macro shot of one of these amazing little creatures. It was sitting outside my window ledge. I had good natural light which helped. I think I got as close to the spider as my lens would allow (which is 295 mm from my subject to the sensor of my camera). Worth enlarging.
Syrphid flower fly and tiny spider on a wedelia flower. One of those images that reveal more on the computer screen than on the camera screen...
Hiding in plain sight!
I went looking for spiders and didn't see any til I looked at this on the computer!😂