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Christmas Spider (Australian Jewel Spider) at Lysterfield State Park (Lake Walk loop), VIC Australia
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Aperture: f/2.8 (for a shallow depth of field to isolate the spider)
Shutter Speed: 1/200s (to freeze the spider’s details in natural light)
ISO: 400 (to handle outdoor lighting while maintaining clarity)
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#Prompt: #Prod
Fluff on the carpet
Prod it to see if it moves
Spider runs at me
We've all been there: You've been hunting a moth all morning, and when you finally land the killing blow, you overcompensate and savage it so violently, you get its wing scales all up in your eyes.
Then a human comes along with a camera to immortalise your embarrassment. Typical!
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Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)
We named the telescope after the iconic huntsman spiders, which are abundant at Siding Spring Observatory, including inside the various telescope buildings. Perhaps the ants took offence that we chose to honour other arthropods and not them.
One of the resident house jumping spiders was visiting this morning.
I was shooting the flowers trying out my new Panasonic 3D LUMIX G 12.5mm lens (modified for macro focus). Got a lucky Crab Spider perfectly focused. Cross-eyed stereo pair image. Cross your eyes to view 3D image. #macro #stereography #stereopair #spider #nature #wildlife #flowers
Here be spiders!
Here be spiders!
The other thing I've been doing, either up at launch while "parawaiting" for good weather or after I've landed while I'm waiting for the retrieve vehicle, is to snap photos for iNaturalist. I recently started using my mostly-dormant account for fun. I've probably got 60 or 70 different species observations to upload, mostly plants. And this is just what are probably considered common weeds around roadsides and farm fields. I got 20 new plant species this afternoon alone, plus this really cool beetle and spider.
#NewSpecies!
New wolf-spiders from #thailand just howled:
Hippasosa thailandica
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D5B08AF-BDD0-59A0-9CB9-799FD303AE2C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1226.137240
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Did you know that #tarantulas sometimes do a happy butt dance after catching their prey? Now you do! Let this bring a moment of joy into your life. Giant chunky #spider below.
Big spider!
Ah, the tropics. Caught it in a wine glass and put it outside. Glad I turned the light on first.
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