Ready for Take-Off - _TNY_8875S3 (In Explore 17/7 2022)
Here's a new aquiantance for me - either a barbed mesh-weaver (Dictyna uncinata) or a common mesh-weaver (Dictyna arundinacea). It got fed up with me taking opictures and tried to leave by raising its abdomen and let out a thread of silk in the hopes of the wind catching it and pulling it away, a technique known as "ballooning". Since my diffusor and camera blocked any potential wind, it of course didn't work, but it made for an interesting display of behaviour - and I left it alone after this.
This one is only around 3 mm in body length, but I struggled to get all of it in focus so this is a three-exposure focus stack.
Another cool thing about this one are the rows of white hairs on the black head. Pretty nice, right?
Part one is a two-exposure focus stack from the top here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52196059676/
Part two here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52203389537/
Ready for Take-Off - _TNY_8875S3 (In Explore 17/7 2022)
Here's a new aquiantance for me - either a barbed mesh-weaver (Dictyna uncinata) or a common mesh-weaver (Dictyna arundinacea). It got fed up with me taking opictures and tried to leave by raising its abdomen and let out a thread of silk in the hopes of the wind catching it and pulling it away, a technique known as "ballooning". Since my diffusor and camera blocked any potential wind, it of course didn't work, but it made for an interesting display of behaviour - and I left it alone after this.
This one is only around 3 mm in body length, but I struggled to get all of it in focus so this is a three-exposure focus stack.
Another cool thing about this one are the rows of white hairs on the black head. Pretty nice, right?
Part one is a two-exposure focus stack from the top here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52196059676/
Part two here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52203389537/