Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


September 11, 2016: New Spiders: Verrucosa arenata, Tmarus, Peucetia viridans, Neoscona domicilorum, Mecaphesa at Green Swamp East Tract

Wow - what a morning at Green Swamp Nature Preserve: East Tract

This is Larinia directa - similar to Liprocea fusiformis

sep 11 0125 Larinia directa

Larinia directa

sep 11 0130 Larinia directa

Praying mantis

sep 11 0143 praying mantis

Arrowhead spider: Verrucosa arenata

sep 11 0158 arrowhead Verrucosa arenata

Arrowhead spider: Verrucosa arenata

sep 11 0158 unknown sac spider

Running crab spider Tmarus sp.

sep 11 0175 running crab spider Tmarus

Running crab spider Tmarus sp.

sep 11 0175 unknown crab spider

Running crab spider Tmarus sp.

sep 11 0183 running crab spider Tmarus

Running crab spider Tmarus sp.

sep 11 0183 unknown crab spider

Neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0189 neoscona

sep 11 0189 neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0191 neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0191 neoscona sp

sep 11 0197 neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0197 neoscona sp

Neoscona domiciliorum and her web with stabilimenta

sep 11 0200 neoscona domiciliorum stabilimenta

Neoscona domiciliorum and her web with stabilimenta

sep 11 0200 neoscona sp stabilimenta

Neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0212 neoscona domiciliorum

Neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0212 neoscona sp

Neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0223 neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0223 neoscona sp

sep 11 0235 neoscona domiciliorum

sep 11 0235 neoscona sp

Crab spider: Mecaphesa sp.

sep 11 0255 crab spider mecaphesa sp

Perhaps starbellied orb weaver

sep 11 0263 starbellied orb weaver

Some sort of orange insects

sep 11 0269 orange insect

Black bee

sep 11 0271 black bee

Black bee

sep 11 0272 black bee

Black bee

sep 11 0287 black bee

Peucetia viridans female

sep 11 0302 peucetia viridans female

Male and female Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0306 peucetia viridans female male

Peucetia viridans extruding multistrand dragline

sep 11 0309 peucetia viridans dragline

Male Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0313 peucetia viridans male

Female Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0323 peucetia viridans female male

Black bee

sep 11 0330 black bee

Black bee

sep 11 0333 black bee

Black bee

sep 11 0334 black bee

sep 11 0338 black bee

Orange insect

sep 11 0348 orange insect

walking back - we looked for the green lynx couple and we found them. Here are the male and female Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0359 peucetia viridins couple

Male pedipalps

sep 11 0388 peucetia viridans male palps

Male Peucetia viridins injector

sep 11 0372 peucetia viridans male palp injector

Male and female green lynx spiders

sep 11 0374 peucetia viridans male female

Female and male Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0391 peucetia viridans female male

Male and female green lynx

sep 11 0396 0401 peucetia male female

Male female (focus stack experiment)

sep 11 0396 0401 peucetia male female stack

Male Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0396 peucetia viridans male

Male and female Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0398 peucetia viridans female male

Male and female Peucetia viridans

sep 11 0400 peucetia viridans female male

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C. Frank Starmer

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