Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Off to teh Wilderness park off I75. Here is Lyssomanes viridis - interesting because she has a transparent cephalothorax and you can watch her move her internal retina as she scans for prey

A fuzzy something

Another female Lyssomanes viridis

Some sort of mites and a black blob

Another view

Female Lyssomanes viridis

Anterior of Long legged Sac spider, Cheiracanthium mildei

Cheiracanthium mildei she she is on top of her sac

Here she is upside down under her roof

Another view

Female Lyssomanes viridis

Note the lens positions in her medial eyes

The black region under her hairy head is her retina

Another view (laterial) of Lyssomanes viridis and internal retina

Lyssomanes viritis one retina pointed toward me, the other retina focused in some other direction

Unknown orb weaver

Long legged sac spider, Cheiracanthium mildei

Entering her home

Resitng upside down

Stick insect

Stick insect

Crane fly

C. Frank Starmer

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