Arachnids
Featured Work
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Holding On by Tracy Faught
Crab spider with a very pollen coated bee. Norwood Ontario Canada
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Spider on a colourful meadow by Urmas Roostalu
On a colourful meadow in Estonia, where sticky catchflies, hawksbeard flowers, clovers and a pleathora of other flowers created a vibrant background, I found this spider in it’s perfectly geometrical web.
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Jumping Spider by KaneSlater
Approximate length: 5 mm Etobicoke, Ontario / 6/4/09
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Beautiful Orb by Vanessa Barklay
Here is the same large red orb spider at rest, in position. back into it’s web, a great photo taken by my daughter Alex, 10, there is 3 in this Orb Spider set. This spider is so pretty, it was deep bright red with a fat back looking as though it has been painted, lovely to see some nature like that this morning with Alex. / / / Taken at Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland, Australia with Canon PowerShot A480
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A Lucky Escape by Paul Duckett
Orb Spiders in Australia are large and many people fear them. However they are friendly and become very relaxed if you stroke their abdomen. Also their fangs are tiny so its hard for them to bite us. This Millipede fell into the Orb’s web, yet they have there own defences. Gigantowales chisholmi, has arsenic compounds which make it taste bad for its predators. In this case the Orb released the Millipede from its web.
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Life Begins on a Thread by Paul Duckett
Probably the most challenging photo I’ve ever taken. This was taken in Ku-ring-gai chase National Park, at a look out called “Westhead”, just outside of Sydney in Australia. The capture is just as the spider has dropped from a branch to start building its web The species is Eriophora transmarina.
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THING OF BEAUTY by mtraufler
The spider that wove this web would appear in my back yard every evening and start just before dark. An hour later there would be this masterpiece hanging between the tree and the deck. I illuminated the web with a flashlight to focus the camera (on tripod). Then shut off the flashlight and took the photo using the flash. Camera- Gateway DC-T50, shutter 1/52sec., f/2.8, ISO 100
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sittin on a toadstool by LoreLeft27
normally i dont like spiders but this was neat taken on june 20 09 add me to fav waterfalls seasons lighthouses sunrises black and white ships and cars ink and color moonandstars sunrises animals / and critters flowers lightning clouds mountains birds winter
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Red Back Spider by jstephen
Super Macro of a Red Back found this afternoon Featured in Arachnids: – 9/7/2009
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Australian Spiders by Paul Duckett
Eriophora transmarina – the markings can be variable on this species. A relatively large and friendly spider found at Westhead just outside Sydney.
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Wolf Spider with hatchlings by Marleia Main
Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, from the Greek word “λύκος” meaning “wolf”. They are robust and agile hunters, and have good eyesight. They live mostly solitary lives and hunt alone. Some are opportunistic wanderer hunters, pouncing upon prey as they find it or chasing it over short distances. Others lie in wait for passing prey, often from or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble Nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but they carry their egg sacs by attaching them to their spinnerets (Pisauridae carry their egg sacs with their chelicerae and pedipalps). There are several genera of Wolf spider, ranging in body size from less than 1 to 30 millimetres (0.04 to 1.18 in). They have eight eyes arranged in three rows. The bottom row consists of four small eyes, the middle row has two very large eyes and the top row has two medium-sized eyes. They depend on their eyesight, which is quite good, to hunt. Their sense of touch is also acute. Wolf spiders are unique in carrying their eggs along with them in a round silken globe, or egg sac,which they attach to the spinnerets at the end of their abdomen. The abdomen must be held in a raised position to keep the egg case from dragging on the ground, but they are still capable of hunting while so encumbered. Also unique among wolf spiders is their method of infant care. Immediately after the little spiders hatch and emerge from their protective silken case they clamber up their mother’s legs and all crowd onto her abdomen. wiki / Olympus E510 w/ Sigma 105mm
Recent Work
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Orbweaver in web by KaneSlater
West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 9/16/08
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Orbweaver in web by KaneSlater
West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 7/9/09
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Orbweaver by KaneSlater
West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 7/9/09
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Brown spider close-up 2 by David Clarke
This is a second macro shot showing more detail of ‘Brown spider’, this time a little cropped. This little spider, about 1cm from tip of a front leg to tip of a rear leg, was hanging around in the web he’d constructed from the base of the inside shutter in our dining room. The morning light streaming through the window illuminated the web and its host with dramatic effect. Every so often he wandered across to the edge of the web to pick up another victim caught overnight and then headed back to the web’s centre to consume it for breakfast. You can look at this shot in a different perspective: imagine the abdomen is the head, the rear legs become two forearms poised in the air while the forelegs have just launched the acrobatic spider from the web!! Just musing!! Taken in Tuscany, 8 June, 2009 Canon 40D with 28-70mm f2.8L lens at 68mm with Canon EB25 tube; ISO 200 f9 1/160
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Brown spider close-up by David Clarke
This little spider, about 1cm from tip of a front leg to tip of a rear leg, was hanging around in the web he’d constructed from the base of the inside shutter in our dining room. The morning light streaming through the window illuminated the web and its host with dramatic effect. Every so often he wandered across to the edge of the web to pick up another victim caught overnight and then headed back to the web’s centre to consume it for breakfast. This is a macro shot showing more detail of ‘Brown spider’. You can look at this shot in a different perspective: imagine the abdomen is the head, the rear legs become two forearms poised in the air while the forelegs are coiled ready to launch the acrobatic spider from the web!! Just musing!! Taken in Tuscany, 8 June, 2009 Canon 40D with 28-70mm f2.8L lens at 70mm with Canon EB25 tube; ISO 200 f10 1/50
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Brown spider by David Clarke
This little spider, about 1cm from tip of a front leg to tip of a rear leg, was hanging around in the web he’d constructed from the base of the inside shutter in our dining room. The morning light streaming through the window illuminated the web and its host with dramatic effect. Every so often he wandered across to the edge of the web to pick up another victim caught overnight and then headed back to the web’s centre to consume it for breakfast. Taken in Tuscany, 8 June, 2009 Canon 40D with Canon 10-22mm EFS lens at 22mm; ISO 200 f10 1/40 As is from the camera.
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Untitled by suzyque
Later that night I went back to see if the golden orb spider was still there are was pleased to see she was having her dinner. No tiny little bugs for this critter – I was just pleased that it wasn’t my little finger stuck there in her mouth.
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Golden Orb Spider by suzyque
This spider was sitting behind the Ladies bathroom at Paronella Park, near Innisfail, Qld. It was huge. I tried putting my hand up to it a couple of times for my friend to take a photo so you could get a comparison but I couldn’t bear to keep it there long enough for her to get a shot. At a guess I’d say it was close to 8 or 9 inches from leg end to leg end. I can’t say for sure that the web was that golden colour or whether it was the light that made it look so golden but I haven’t adjusted any of the colour and this is just what I saw.
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Jumping Spider by KaneSlater
West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 7/8/09
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Look out when you go get parsley! by Mojca S.
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unknown spider by PenangAndy
2009-05-08, Canon G9, Malaysia, Pulau Tioman, ABC
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!
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