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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 August 2016 at 20:30
Originally posted by wetapunga wetapunga wrote:

Originally posted by pdeley pdeley wrote:


Oh Grandma what big teeth you have!




The best of the set I think. It gives a good sense of the menace in those mandibles, the eyes are riveting, and the contrast brings out the detail. They can be tricky to photograph- they don't seem to like to sit still for long. Well done.


Thanks and yes, it took almost two hours of shuffling back and forth along the same muddy furrow in a dirt road, before one of them would sit still and face me head-on for just long enough to get close. I went back two more times to the same stretch of the track and the sand tigers had vanished, but instead this blue-green species showed up:


A Jewel on the Ground



Of course they wouldn't sit and wait either, but then clouds came in and that seemed to slow down their hyperactive run-fly-photo-evading.

Two's the magic number




And yet another species showed up as well, smaller and more wine reddish with two ivory bands, but even jumpier than its bigger brethren. I didn't get close at all - cloud or no cloud - but then next morning this specimen of the very same kind briefly stopped running along the edge of a very different puddle near a different highway further east:

Cropped a bit too much



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 August 2016 at 09:57
Dark Bush Cricket


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 September 2016 at 10:07
Jumping spider
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 October 2016 at 19:09
Porch visitor.



Close up. I'm watching you with me little eyes!



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Beautiful, Dena, Are they fast?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 October 2016 at 17:20
Originally posted by luke luke wrote:

Beautiful, Dena, Are they fast?


Thanks, yes, they can be fast, but usually pretty docile. I think he might have just shed because he was very defensive and watched me every second. He kept running around the top of this planter every time I moved toward him. But he stayed still long enough for me to snap a few.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 October 2016 at 06:06
#1 - Spider
DSC01810b by David Chesterfield, on Flickr

#2 - Brown Beetle
DSC03088_tonemapped by David Chesterfield, on Flickr

#3 - Mole Cricket
DSC08424 by David Chesterfield, on Flickr

#4 - Golden Orb Wever
DSC05411 by David Chesterfield, on Flickr

#5 - huntsman
DSC05978C by David Chesterfield, on Flickr
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 November 2016 at 02:07
This female "Argiope argentata" wove its web in our garden.



This one is cropped from the previous one. The spider looks like a desperate old woman with a funny hair bun.


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