Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


September 22, 2007: Ants and juvenile Nephila and maybe Leucauge

Two ants seemed to be fighting over a treehopper. The treehopper did not try to escape so - what is happening?

sep 22 5091 ants

Here is one of the ants - sort of manipulaing the tree hopper.

sep 22 5127 ant

Turning it over

sep 22 5137 ants

Hmmm - seems interesting

sep 22 5139 two ants

With jaws wide open

sep 22 5150 ants

From above

sep 22 5162 ant

More inspecting

sep 22 5170 ants

Hmmm - now who gets it?

sep 22 5181 ants

Me of course

sep 22 5182 ants

Not so fast, guy

sep 22 5196 2 ants

A jumping spider - great for practice focus

sep 21 7165 jumping spider

And again - a bit overexposed

sep 21 7170 jumping spider

Leucauge decorata with jade-green legs

sep 21 7227 leucauge decorata

From the top

sep 21 7233 leucauge decorata

and some young Nephila

sep 22 4923 nephila

and her web

sep 22 4930 nephila web

and her recently escaped exoskeleton

sep 22 4933 nephila exoskeleton

I just like catching Nephila as they do their thing. Good view of her dragline silk safety harness

sep 22 4937 nephila

From the side

sep 22 4944 nephila side

Nephila and web

sep 22 5012 nephila web

And a really tiny Argyrodes

sep 22 4991 argyrodes

Some scale perspective

sep 22 4991 argyrodes vertical

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C. Frank Starmer

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