How to stop a jumping spider moving

Lord Vetinari

Spotted this tiny baby jumping spider on a wheelie bin lid. Tried to get it to settle a bit but it was having none of it- tried letting it walk on to a flower but still did not stop moving. I eventually gave up and decided to drop it off the flower onto some nearby tomato plants. It had other ideas and abseiled off the flower. I just managed to get it to land on the stem of some petunia flowers by the back door.
I then looked where it landed and it was still in the same place. Snipped off the bit of plant and the spider stayed still, took it in the house a shot a whole sequence of shots at 5:1 and the spider stayed still. Then took a sequence of shots with my 10X microscope objective lens setup, the spider stayed still. When I finished I blew the spider off the stem onto some other plants and it scampered off. Only when I looked up petunias I found out they are covered with tiny sticky hairs.
All shots focus stacked using zerene.
Brian V.

ian408

I love the color in the second. They're all very nice but definitely the second.

DeeBug

Great captures Brian, I chased a baby one yesterday up and down a wall for about 10mins then gave up!

Davy

Stumblebum

Fabulous and vibrant!

basflt

Great series !

Did this too
The Verbena i mentioned a while ago also has these sticky stuff on it .
Smaller insects that land on it are not strong enough to free themselves and die .

GOLDENORFE

Wow!

lifeinfocus

Like the vignetting on the last one. All are great, but like the last one more.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks all for the comments- appreciated
Bas- interesting to know Verbena is similar.
Brian V.