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Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly. (creepy crawly warning)!

nilhg · 2008-06-01 09:10:45

I was checking some cattle down the fields, when I came on this drama on a bull rush flower. Capture Negotiating the tricky bit at the bottom Away home with dinner I have no idea of the variety of spider, if anyone has any info I'd be delighted to know.

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I was checking some cattle down the fields, when I came on this drama on a bull rush flower.

Capture

Negotiating the tricky bit at the bottom

Away home with dinner

I have no idea of the variety of spider, if anyone has any info I'd be delighted to know.

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#2 01-06-2008 9:24am

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Weird spider. :pac: White?!

Nice shots though. Well done.

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#3 01-06-2008 9:31am

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It's an albino crab spider.

Little bastards. Great shots, but I'm too unnerved by spiders

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#4 01-06-2008 9:37am

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would this be the one? It seems, according to various websites, to be found mainly on yellow and red/pink flowers. Very interesting. Excellent photos by the way!

http://janies-rainy-day.blogspot.com/2007/04/white-death-spider.html

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#5 01-06-2008 9:39am

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Lol, I think calling her the white death spider is a bit much

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#6 01-06-2008 9:44am

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It's prey would beg to differ with you Fajitas.

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#7 01-06-2008 10:07am

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Excellent shots.

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#8 01-06-2008 11:45am

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deadly!!

wha equipment & settings you use??

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#9 01-06-2008 11:52am

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Very nice capture. I've never seen one of these spiders before.

Dave OS

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#10 01-06-2008 12:38pm

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unreggd wrote: »

deadly!!

wha equipment & settings you use??

Olympus E510 and 70-300 lens, handheld @1/800sec f5.6 (which is wide open on this lens). I would have been roughly 1 meter from the subject.

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#11 01-06-2008 1:38pm

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One of those things frightened the crap out of me one day. Thread about it in the Nature forum from last year. My pics ain't as good though.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055126738&highlight=crab+spider

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#12 01-06-2008 3:24pm

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As far as i know these have the ability to change color too also known as a flower spider!
this is one i took earlier

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#13 01-06-2008 3:36pm

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Yeah, the bull rushes have just started flowering here so my guy will probably be yellow in a couple of days, sneaky buggers.......

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#14 01-06-2008 5:11pm

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Nice shots

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#15 02-06-2008 1:19pm

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nice shots, I hate spiders but I still love these types of shots

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#16 02-06-2008 1:57pm

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Extremely disappointed with my attempt of a Spider pic, taken in a Pub beer garden.
Think it's called a False Widow Spider.....

Make's me totally appreciate the above guys photos.

No Tripod used or flashlights etc, 100mm 2.8 Macro.

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#17 02-06-2008 7:43pm

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nilhg wrote: »

I would have been roughly 1 meter from the subject.

any reason you didnt get closer

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#18 02-06-2008 7:54pm

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Poor farmer, can't afford a closer focusing lens...........:D

No worries about the spider though, I probably outweigh him by a factor of 100,000...........

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