Yu managed to get out of bed after a long night studying - and here she appears quite awake. We have a fun time - Gabriel, Yu and myself.
I can take video with the D90. This was an experiment using the Tamron 180 mm macro. For a first attempt - not too shabby except the focus. I am scheduled to have my right eye done Tuesday. We'll see if that improves the focus
High Definition video of Argyrodes flavescens extruding drag line silk.
The little lady above is about 2x the size of the babies toward the rear of the Nephila pilipes here
Sort of suspended
Here you can see reflections and the golden drops of glue on the circumferential strands of the Nephila web
My focus is improving and this reflection is pretty sharp
Here is an interesting image of the golden glue drops and her drag line that she is manipulating with one of her 4th legs
Half the fun of this is trying to figure out what she is doing. Here I'm clueless
Here she is harvesting glue - must be yummy
Here is a good view of her drag line - which she wraps around some of the circumferential strands
Another good reflection. There was little light and so there is some blurring of her 4th leg as she is doing something
A view from the side and another nice reflection of the field and tree behind me
Manipulating her drag line silk - being extruded from her spinneret
I rarely see the dragline - but this morning, almost every image shows it. Here the glue drops are in the same plane as her abdomen - so they are sort of in focus
Another view of her dragline
Here she is doing something with a circumferential strand - perhaps preparing to harvest the golden glue drops
This is sort of a straddle position.
The hostess, Nephila pilipes
From the side
Here eyes - though the flash reflection sort of overshadows the small eyes.
Another view of her dragline
Here it appears that there are glue drops on her dragline
A better view of her dragline with periodic blobs of something - perhaps glue
A fun morning of spider hunting and a happy couple
C. Frank Starmer