Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 26, 2007: Nephila kuhli / pilipes and Argyrodes flavescens

I returned to the small forest across from Queenstown Secondary School. This morning, she (N. kuhli / pilipes had rebuilt her web and was displaying her catch-of-the-night. Look for the little orange dots. These are Agryodes flavescens in the midst of steadling foor

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A closer view

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Here you can see A. flavescens munching on the packiage of "ftuff")

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A small happy family

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Now some tricks. I inverted a 50 mm Nikon lens and reverse mounted it on the Canon S3 body

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Another view, but not great focus

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Slightly better

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Another view

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Simply wandering all over this entrapped insect

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and back to the Back. Look at the sky reflection on her abdomen

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anohter view with a safety line

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