Post your Spiders

[ktuli]

My wife found this little guy at work and was gracious enough to find a container, trap him, and bring him home for me to work with since the winter months have made finding spiders and other bugs difficult.



More will be forthcoming as I have set this guy up in a larger container and have been feeding him in trade for some more time to work with him. Models can be so finicky!

- Bill

[Letrow]

My wife found this little guy at work and was gracious enough to find a container, trap him, and bring him home for me to work with since the winter months have made finding spiders and other bugs difficult.



More will be forthcoming as I have set this guy up in a larger container and have been feeding him in trade for some more time to work with him. Models can be so finicky!

- Bill

you have a daring wife I guess.
You have been feeding him. I've read somewhere they only like living food, that must be hard work for you.

[ktuli]

you have a daring wife I guess.
You have been feeding him. I've read somewhere they only like living food, that must be hard work for you.

Yep - she has no problems with most spiders or bugs. She is a fantastic spotter on nature walks (and on dives too) - often spotting my next subject while I'm working on the current one.

As for feeding him, it wasn't a problem at all. I just went to the pet store and bought some appropriately sized crickets. I used to own a pet store, so keeping a spider alive, healthy, and happy for a couple days is no trouble at all. And I might decide to start doing it more often if it ends up making this guy more cooperative with the shoots.

- Bill

[ktuli]

Another jumping spider...



This one is about 3x magnification, and I also posted one at 5x magnification on my P52 thread if you're interested.

- Bill

[ktuli]

Here's a jumping spider happily sucking down its dinner....



Shot is taken at close to 4:1 magnification using the Canon MP-E65mm 1-5x macro lens + the MT-24EX Twin Macro flash (note the dual catch lights in the eyes), so this guy is pretty tiny.

- Bill

[Geoff F]

Misumena vatia male. I tried to include a bit of the background to put the spider into a bit more context with his surroundings.

[ktuli]

Getting a quick drink of water...

[ktuli]

Seems this is becoming my own personal thread... other folks need to start finding more spiders to share...

This one is currently sitting on a clutch of eggs at home. She is completely sealed up in a cocoon of silk with the eggs, and I have not seen her come out in over a week now.



- Bill

[Geoff F]

Seems this is becoming my own personal thread... other folks need to start finding more spiders to share...

- Bill

I have been concentrating more on other species of insects lately; but here are a couple of spiders.



Araniella cucurbitina. Looks like a 'new adult' male. I always struggle to get that pale yellowish green abdomen without any over exposure.

And this Pardosa species is having it's lunch.

[Letrow]

A tiny spider from my back garden. I am not sure what kind it is exactly. My best guess would be Enoplognatha ovata (belonging to the family Theridiidae) and this would be consistent with its size.



In fact, it was so tiny that I couldn't make out much detail while photographing it. I was surprised at the detail I got when it showed up on the computer screen.

[ktuli]

One from last summer...



Just showing off the bird poop camouflage these girls (you can almost always assume that when you see these, they are females) use. Spined Micrathenas (Micrathena gracilis).

- Bill

[ktuli]

A couple more of the jumping spiderlings that I posted in my P52 thread...









- Bill

[jprzybyla]

I came across this one during a recent photo walk in a nature reserve. Interesting and beautiful to look at but I have an intense fear of walking into one and having it crawling on me. I do not know the species but it was big. Really big, about two inches across. C&C welcomed. Thank you for viewing.

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[ktuli]

Joe - beautiful specimen of a Argiope aurantia (Yellow Garden Spider) you have there... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia ... I'd also heard them called Banana Spiders, but that name is used for a lot of other spiders that technically do live in bananas and look nothing like these gals.

- Bill

[Geoff F]

These Agelena labyrinthica are sometimes wrongly known as English Funnel Web Spiders because they usually live at the bottom of a conical web - where they lie in wait for anything which falls into their web.



But because of that position they are difficult to photograph; and if they get disturbed they run to the bottom of the web tube.

I managed to catch this one close to the outer rim of it's web but it quickly scuttled back to safety.



They are messy feeders; the web edges always have a mixture of debris and discarded bits of earlier meals.

[Geoff F]

Linyphia triangularis



These spiders spend most of their time hanging upside down from a very fine horizontal web. This is an amazing construction with many suspension lines and braces. A real treat of natural engineering design.

This web has had quite a few seedheads dropping onto it.

And another rather similar spider which was living next door. Neriene peltata I think.



Both rather difficult to expose correctly due to the mixture of white and dark chocolate colours. I had to under expose to get the whites correct then adjust the shadows during editing.

Sigma 180 macro lens with flash on a tripod. 1/250 F14.

[shetan]

There is another black widow, i found outside of my house. In this time i don't have a macro lens, i hope this weekend find other and i can take a picture with my macro.

[ktuli]

Here's an assortment of jumping spiders...







Enjoy!

- Bill

[Ollokot]

Hi Folks,
Have been ill of late, but coming around so went out the back looking for Spiders, came across this lad, think he may be one of the Araniella but not sure, help with an ID would be most appreciated,
Best Wishes, Pat

[John Morton]

I don't know the type of spider, but I can tell you the kind of plant it is on...SPIDERWORT!