Arachnids
Featured Work
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Beautifully Scary Spider by DARRIN ALDRIDGE
A beautifully scary green and red spider waits for a meal with a built in camoflouge outfit. Green Lynx (Peucetia viridans).
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Eastern Mouse Spider by Adam Maund
A close relative of the Funnel-web, this fiesty little arachnid can be found roaming in rains during the warm season. They are quite common (even in suburbia) but rarely seen, and are so named from the burrows they dig. – Springbrook, Qld 2010
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Net-casting spider by Steve Axford
My wife found this for me in her shop – but then ran into a door after catching it. So, the photo had best be a good one
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Raindrops on Spiderweb by Annie J Lemay
© Annie J Lemay 2009 Nikon D2X / 105 mm Raindrops on a spiderweb with flowers in the background. Thank you for stopping in! FEATURED in Arachnids group Feb 5, 2010 / FEATURED in Photography 101 group 2010-01-26 / FEATURED in Shapes and Patterns group 2010-01-27 / FEATURED in Super Macro Photography group 2010-01-28 / September 14, 2009 / _AJL6585 Spider Web
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Scorpion Under UV Light - Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, South Australia by Catherine Whitehead
Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens
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Wolf Spider - Burra, South Australia by Catherine Whitehead
Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens
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Billowing by Vikram Franklin
I cropped!! I almost NEVER crop …. something weird about losing all those mega-pixels :-) Here’s the original shot: Nikon D80 / Nikon AF-S VR 105mm Micro / f/4 at 1/200 sec / ISO 100 / About 9:30 AM with the sun peeking over the trees. / Slight breeze blowing that was making that web flap a lot in the wind. So had to use 1/200 and so f/4 / PS: This spider is about 1.5 cm from tip to tip
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Mouth Full by Kazzoom IPA
Dont you just love walking around your garden and seeing what is happening. This tiny spider has caught, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cairns Far North Queensland Canon 400D / Canon Macro Lens 100mm BEST VIEWED LARGER
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Lunch Anyone by Kazzoom IPA
One less fly to worry about this summer…. Cairns, Far North Queensland Canon 400D / Canon Macro Lens 100mm BEST VIEWED LARGER
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Flower Spider - Diaea evanida (or a closely related species) by Normf
This female Crab or Flower spider Diaea evanida (or a closely related species) waited all day to get one of those delicious hover flies so tantalisingly close, but alas… ... .. Oh well there’s always tomorrow! / Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Aust Postscript! The Hover Fliers get reprieve as Miss Flower Spider became prey herself to an Abispa species of Potter Wasp the next morning!! Canon EOS 7D / Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE / Shutter Speed 1/160 / Aperture Value 7.1 / Metering Mode Evaluative Metering / ISO Speed 100 / Lens EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM / Focal Length 100.0 mm
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Garden Jumping Spider by Adam Gormley
This cute little guy I spotted on the pool fence open knob. That’s the reason for the black setting, and slight reflection. After about 50 times fishing him off my lens, I managed to snap this shot :) I just love working with these spiders, they are so cute… Noosaville, Queensland, Australia. Canon 5D Mk II, 65mm, 4x.
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Female Green Jumping Spider - Lunch by Adam Gormley
A fully grown female Green Jumping Spider (Mopsus mormon), she is about 15mm in length, and is the biggest jumping spider I have seen to date. I watched her hunt for lunch for about 2 hours, before giving up, and gently bringing her inside to take a few photos. I didn’t expect to get lucky and watch her catch this fly which was flying around the house at the time. Attatching a little saftey line to the mirror, the jump was swift and true. After taking a few more shots, I gently put her back on the same leaf I found her. These spiders live in little homes, usually created by pulling 2 leaves together, and filling with silk. Some species also have a little front door. Noosaville, Queensland, Australia. Canon 5D Mk II, 65mm, 2x. Available large and best appreciated large.
Recent Work
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Decaying Beauty by starBellyDesign
This macro I took to focus on the insides of the decomposing rose, and the dew drops. I didn’t notice the spider until I downloaded the picture and viewed it! Taken in Tukwila, WA (USA) with a Fuji FinePix A500.
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My Little Friend by GranC53
American Tarantula Most American tarantulas have barbed and mildly venomous “urticating” hairs on their abdomens, and they use their legs to “cast” the hairs into the faces of threatening animals, inflicting irritation of soft tissues and eyes. In the face of a threat or a perceived threat, a typical American tarantula has two lines of defense. It can use its fangs to inflict a bite, or it can use its “urticating” (barbed and mildly venomous) abdominal hairs to cause soft tissue or eye irritation. Fortunately, while painful and aggravating, the tarantula’s fangs or or hairs appear to cause no long term damage in most cases. New Mexico
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Dinner by GranC53
Pictured here is a Tarantula Hawk who has just captured a tarantula. The Tarantula Hawk is part of the wasp family. It injects its venom into the spider and carries it back to its nest where she will lay her eggs on the abdomen of the spider. As the eggs hatch they feed off of the tarantula spider who is alive but stunned and paralyzed from the venom. Captured this in Arizona on a “Pink Jeep Tour”
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I Am One With The Flower... by Tracy Faught
A yellow Crab Spider doing an excellent job blending with this Tickseed Flower!! Fuji Finepix s1000fd Digital- Super Macro Setting. Norwood Ontario Canada.
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Golden Orb Weaver by Darsana
Golden Orb Weaver (Nephila edulis) Photographed at Aspley, Queensland Australia
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Patience by Joel Aston
Spider stalking its prey at sunset.
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Leaf me alone by missmoneypenny
canvas, card, framed, laminated, matted, mounted, poster, print, rb, redbubble, moneypenny, leaf, spider, arachnid
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Gossamer Burst by Wayne England
A small spider in my garden shooting a gossamer thread towards a leaf. I didn’t know I had this flukey shot until I looked at it on the computer! Considering how fast they shoot it I think it’s amazing I got it. It was taken at 1/125th of a second with a Nikon D80 and 18-135 lens. Not too bad for a non macro lens too! The spider’s body is about 1cm long and sits on the web with it’s long legs stretched out front and back, maybe to look like a small stick.
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wind or rain "SHE WAITS in SILENCE"... by Les Boucher
I found this girl waiting patiently for her next meal. Even though, it had been raining…She Waited in Silence..... Looking closely (Bottom right) you will see a mosquito…the result of an earlier capture. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 / F 3.6 / 1/160 sec / ISO: 100
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About This Group
ARACHNID- definition: Any of a class (Arachnida) of arthropods comprising chiefly terrestrial invertebrates, including the spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, and having a segmented body divided into two regions of which the anterior bears four pairs of legs but no antennae
In short, our eight-legged friends. This group is dedicated to showing the artistic, beautiful side of these amazing creatures so many people fear.
All art related to Arachnids is welcome. That includes Manipulations, Paintings, Drawings, Photography, T-shirts, Cartoons, anything with an Arachnid visibly present!
Group Icon: 16 Legs by clmustin
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